[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Dec 17 00:36:11 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt32.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 438bfb7a3bf8aec649c015b6431d738cef52a809 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:14:14 +0100
Subject: parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h

commit dcbf0d299c00ed4f82ea8d6e359ad88a5182f9b8 upstream.

Drop the MADV_xxK_PAGES flags, which were never used and were from a proposed
API which was never integrated into the generic Linux kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
index 294d251..2ae13ce5 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h
@@ -46,16 +46,6 @@
 #define MADV_DONTFORK	10		/* don't inherit across fork */
 #define MADV_DOFORK	11		/* do inherit across fork */

-/* The range 12-64 is reserved for page size specification. */
-#define MADV_4K_PAGES   12              /* Use 4K pages  */
-#define MADV_16K_PAGES  14              /* Use 16K pages */
-#define MADV_64K_PAGES  16              /* Use 64K pages */
-#define MADV_256K_PAGES 18              /* Use 256K pages */
-#define MADV_1M_PAGES   20              /* Use 1 Megabyte pages */
-#define MADV_4M_PAGES   22              /* Use 4 Megabyte pages */
-#define MADV_16M_PAGES  24              /* Use 16 Megabyte pages */
-#define MADV_64M_PAGES  26              /* Use 64 Megabyte pages */
-
 #define MADV_MERGEABLE   65		/* KSM may merge identical pages */
 #define MADV_UNMERGEABLE 66		/* KSM may not merge identical pages */

--
1.9.1





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