[merged mm-stable] x86-virt-use-higher-level-allocator-api.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:26 -0700
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.mm-commits |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
The quilt patch titled
Subject: x86/virt: use higher-level allocator API
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
x86-virt-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: x86/virt: use higher-level allocator API
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:50 +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: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Assisted-by: Gemini:unknown-version
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/virt/hw.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c~x86-virt-use-higher-level-allocator-api
+++ a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static __init int __x86_vmx_init(void)
struct page *page;
struct vmcs *vmcs;
- page = __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!page)) {
x86_vmx_exit();
return -ENOMEM;
_
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