From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page*
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:02:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005100253.GD31821@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-05 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-04 15:00 [PATCH] mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page* Michal Hocko
2017-10-05 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2017-10-05 10:02 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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