[merged mm-stable] kvm-vmx-use-higher-level-allocator-api.patch removed from -mm tree

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:24 -0700
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The quilt patch titled
     Subject: KVM: VMX: use higher-level allocator API
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kvm-vmx-use-higher-level-allocator-api.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: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>
Subject: KVM: VMX: use higher-level allocator API
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:49 +0000

The difference between __alloc_pages_node() and alloc_pages_node() is
that the latter allows you to pass NUMA_NO_NODE.

The former is going away and the latter works fine here so switch over.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Gemini:unknown-version
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c~kvm-vmx-use-higher-level-allocator-api
+++ a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c
@@ -3027,7 +3027,7 @@ struct vmcs *alloc_vmcs_cpu(bool shadow,
 	struct page *pages;
 	struct vmcs *vmcs;
 
-	pages = __alloc_pages_node(node, flags, 0);
+	pages = alloc_pages_node(node, flags, 0);
 	if (!pages)
 		return NULL;
 	vmcs = page_address(pages);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-secretmem-dont-allow-highmem-folios.patch
mm-page_alloc-dont-spin_trylock-in-nmi-on-up.patch
mm-page_alloc-dont-spin_trylock-when-disallowed-in-free_one_page.patch
mm-page_alloc-rename-fpi_trylock-fpi_nolock.patch
cgroup-cpuset-update-some-comments-about-the-page-allocator.patch
mm-page_alloc-fixup-alloc_pages_nolock_noprof-comment.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-a-couple-of-vm_bug_onst.patch