mm-use-a-folio-in-the-softleaf_is_device_private-path.patch removed from -mm tree
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: use a folio in the softleaf_is_device_private path
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-use-a-folio-in-the-softleaf_is_device_private-path.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Hongfu Li <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: use a folio in the softleaf_is_device_private path
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:51:43 +0800
Use the folio APIs in the device_private migration path of do_swap_page(), replacing four calls to compound_head() with two page_folio() calls. The second one re-fetches the folio from vmf->page after migrate_to_ram(), which might have split the folio.
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mm/memory.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
mm/memory.c renamed from mm/memory.c~mm-use-a-folio-in-the-softleaf_is_device_private-path +9 -6
@@ -4926,18 +4926,21 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault goto unlock;/* -* Get a page reference while we know the page can't be -* freed. +* Get a folio reference while we know the folio can't +* be freed. */ -if (trylock_page (vmf->page)) { + folio =page_folio (vmf->page); +if (folio_trylock (folio)) {struct dev_pagemap *pgmap; -get_page (vmf->page); +folio_get (folio);pte_unmap_unlock (vmf->pte, vmf->ptl); pgmap =page_pgmap (vmf->page); ret = pgmap->ops->migrate_to_ram (vmf); -unlock_page (vmf->page); -put_page (vmf->page); +/* migrate_to_ram() might have split the folio. */ + folio =page_folio (vmf->page); +folio_unlock (folio); +folio_put (folio); }else {pte_unmap (vmf->pte);softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked (entry, vmf->ptl);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
mm-page_owner-preserve-original-free_pid-free_tgid-during-folio-migration.patch mm-memfd-fix-hugetlb-reservation-accounting-in-error-paths.patch selftests-mm-fix-ptrace-peekdata-check-in-memfd_secret-test.patch mm-hugetlb_cgroup-move-per-node-usage-on-cross-node-migration.patch mm-hugetlb_cgroup-move-per-node-usage-on-cgroup-reparenting.patch mm-hugetlb-account-migration-target-folio-in-per-node-nr_hugetlb-vmstat.patch mm-memcg-migrate-per-node-hugetlb-lruvec-stat-together-with-hugetlb-folio.patch