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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2017-01-27 11:00:42 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2017-01-27 11:00:42 +1000
commitb0df0b251b25b0bf89ef3e518330fcac300add86 (patch)
tree962d8f7e91b2552a87af230762085ad97292a091 /include/linux/mmzone.h
parentf0493e653f9679114d1dfd54ab88b54ce95576e1 (diff)
parentff9f8a7cf935468a94d9927c68b00daae701667e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into drm-next
Backmerge Linus master to get the connector locking revert. * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux: (645 commits) sysctl: fix proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() Revert "drm/probe-helpers: Drop locking from poll_enable" MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zbud maintainers MAINTAINERS: add Dan Streetman to zswap maintainers mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module mn10300: fix build error of missing fpu_save() romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD frv: add missing atomic64 operations mm, page_alloc: fix premature OOM when racing with cpuset mems update mm, page_alloc: move cpuset seqcount checking to slowpath mm, page_alloc: fix fast-path race with cpuset update or removal mm, page_alloc: fix check for NULL preferred_zone kernel/panic.c: add missing \n fbdev: color map copying bounds checking frv: add atomic64_add_unless() mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask radix-tree: fix private list warnings Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: add VmPin mm, memcg: do not retry precharge charges proc: add a schedule point in proc_pid_readdir() ...
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diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 36d9896fbc1e..f4aac87adcc3 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -972,12 +972,16 @@ static __always_inline struct zoneref *next_zones_zonelist(struct zoneref *z,
* @zonelist - The zonelist to search for a suitable zone
* @highest_zoneidx - The zone index of the highest zone to return
* @nodes - An optional nodemask to filter the zonelist with
- * @zone - The first suitable zone found is returned via this parameter
+ * @return - Zoneref pointer for the first suitable zone found (see below)
*
* This function returns the first zone at or below a given zone index that is
* within the allowed nodemask. The zoneref returned is a cursor that can be
* used to iterate the zonelist with next_zones_zonelist by advancing it by
* one before calling.
+ *
+ * When no eligible zone is found, zoneref->zone is NULL (zoneref itself is
+ * never NULL). This may happen either genuinely, or due to concurrent nodemask
+ * update due to cpuset modification.
*/
static inline struct zoneref *first_zones_zonelist(struct zonelist *zonelist,
enum zone_type highest_zoneidx,