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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-28 10:33:06 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-28 10:33:06 -0500
commit4e8f2fc1a55d543717efb70e170b09e773d0542b (patch)
tree30df1d7fc9dfa24fe2916711a17656682c3f7ec9 /include/linux/mmzone.h
parent158f323b9868b59967ad96957c4ca388161be321 (diff)
parent1b1bc42c1692e9b62756323c675a44cb1a1f9dbd (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Two trivial overlapping changes conflicts in MPLS and mlx5. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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,