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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2018-05-18 11:44:19 +0100
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2018-05-18 11:44:19 +0100
commit0e7fcfff8dc3b5f08f0bee84ce00d3234992e0d2 (patch)
tree26197742be1599e1fb8aa38cde3f0a2e7526d20d /include/linux/mm.h
parent2da9deac1e123ce8f9c22919f9f49b3a50d0c3fd (diff)
parent69847b97f21141c2d4f6e9c1b22d932b7add3182 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.132' into linux-linaro-lsk-v4.4
This is the 4.4.132 stable release
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 5c2bf9096b7a..b20a1e73bacd 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -225,10 +225,14 @@ extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
* ->fault function. The vma's ->fault is responsible for returning a bitmask
* of VM_FAULT_xxx flags that give details about how the fault was handled.
*
+ * MM layer fills up gfp_mask for page allocations but fault handler might
+ * alter it if its implementation requires a different allocation context.
+ *
* pgoff should be used in favour of virtual_address, if possible.
*/
struct vm_fault {
unsigned int flags; /* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags */
+ gfp_t gfp_mask; /* gfp mask to be used for allocations */
pgoff_t pgoff; /* Logical page offset based on vma */
void __user *virtual_address; /* Faulting virtual address */