Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:02:53 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page* |
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On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 05:00:45PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > > empty_bad_page and empty_bad_pte_table seems to be a relict from old > days which is not used by any code for a long time. I have tried to find > when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to many > code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times. > > Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor > empty_bad_pte_table. We only allocate the storage which is not used by > anybody so remove them. > > Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> > Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> > Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> > Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> > Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> > Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> > Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > Cc: <uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp> > Cc: <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> > Cc: <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
On MIPS the empty_bad_page_table definition was deleted in 2549fa57708d ("Small cleanups including deletion of two variables 4k each ...") in the MIPS git tree on 2003-07-29, so
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linus-mips.org>
for getting rid of the rest a mere 14 years later.
Thanks,
Ralf
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