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The PG_waiters bit is not included in PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE, and vmscan.c's free_unref_page_list() callers rely on that not to generate bad_page() alerts. So __page_cache_release(), put_pages_list() and release_pages() (and presumably copy-and-pasted free_zone_device_page()) are redundant and misleading to make a special point of clearing it (as the "__" implies, it could only safely be used on the freeing path). Delete __ClearPageWaiters(). Remark on this in one of the "possible" comments in folio_wake_bit(), and delete the superfluous comments. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3eafa969-5b1a-accf-88fe-318784c791a@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.