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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net, skbuff: Get rid of unused skb_propagate_pfmemalloc
On Thu 27-08-15 10:46:37, mhocko@kernel.org wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
>
> It seems that skb_propagate_pfmemalloc has never had a user since it was
> introduced by 0614002bb5f7 ("netvm: propagate page->pfmemalloc from
> skb_alloc_page to skb"). Remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> Hi,
> this has been noticed while working on 2f064f3485cd ("mm: make page
> pfmemalloc check more robust").

Has this just fallen through cracks or it is not interesting?

>
> include/linux/skbuff.h | 12 ------------
> 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> index 9b88536487e6..9fcf69daa26c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h
> +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h
> @@ -2252,18 +2252,6 @@ static inline struct page *dev_alloc_page(void)
> }
>
> /**
> - * skb_propagate_pfmemalloc - Propagate pfmemalloc if skb is allocated after RX page
> - * @page: The page that was allocated from skb_alloc_page
> - * @skb: The skb that may need pfmemalloc set
> - */
> -static inline void skb_propagate_pfmemalloc(struct page *page,
> - struct sk_buff *skb)
> -{
> - if (page_is_pfmemalloc(page))
> - skb->pfmemalloc = true;
> -}
> -
> -/**
> * skb_frag_page - retrieve the page referred to by a paged fragment
> * @frag: the paged fragment
> *
> --
> 2.5.0
>

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


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