Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove PG_highmem description

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 31-01-18 17:33:32, miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The commit cbe37d093707 ("[PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmem") has removed
> PG_highmem to save a page flag. So the description of PG_highmem
> is no longer needed, remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index 3ec44e27aa9d..50c2b8786831 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -46,11 +46,6 @@
>   * guarantees that this bit is cleared for a page when it first is entered into
>   * the page cache.
>   *
> - * PG_highmem pages are not permanently mapped into the kernel virtual address
> - * space, they need to be kmapped separately for doing IO on the pages.  The
> - * struct page (these bits with information) are always mapped into kernel
> - * address space...
> - *
>   * PG_hwpoison indicates that a page got corrupted in hardware and contains
>   * data with incorrect ECC bits that triggered a machine check. Accessing is
>   * not safe since it may cause another machine check. Don't touch!
> -- 
> 2.12.5
> 

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs