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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-02-06 11:36:10 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-02-06 11:36:10 +0300
commita769f30c7bd7cf917eea05a2b448f3588a87d767 (patch)
tree10a06089a9525926e23675528dd8190d05849143 /include/linux/mmzone.h
parent307a082484eb0201ad123f39f95510a9da11985b (diff)
parentd5adbfcd5f7bcc6fa58a41c5c5ada0e5c826ce2c (diff)
downloadlinux-a769f30c7bd7cf917eea05a2b448f3588a87d767.tar.xz
Merge 4.10-rc7 into staging-next
This resolves the merge errors that were reported in linux-next and it picks up the staging and IIO fixes that we need/want in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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,