From 8a5f14a23177061ec11daeaa3d09d0765d785c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:09:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: drop support of non-linear mapping from unmap/zap codepath We have remap_file_pages(2) emulation in -mm tree for few release cycles and we plan to have it mainline in v3.20. This patchset removes rest of VM_NONLINEAR infrastructure. Patches 1-8 take care about generic code. They are pretty straight-forward and can be applied without other of patches. Rest patches removes pte_file()-related stuff from architecture-specific code. It usually frees up one bit in non-present pte. I've tried to reuse that bit for swap offset, where I was able to figure out how to do that. For obvious reason I cannot test all that arch-specific code and would like to see acks from maintainers. In total, remap_file_pages(2) required about 1.4K lines of not-so-trivial kernel code. That's too much for functionality nobody uses. Tested-by: Felipe Balbi This patch (of 38): We don't create non-linear mappings anymore. Let's drop code which handles them on unmap/zap. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed