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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.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 09:58:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005075819.nehorwiced7emgfi@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org>


* Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> 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>

For the x86 bits:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.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, 05 Oct 2017 07:58:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171005075819.nehorwiced7emgfi@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org>


* Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> 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>

For the x86 bits:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04 15:00 [PATCH] mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page* Michal Hocko
2017-10-04 15:00 ` Michal Hocko
2017-10-05  7:58 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2017-10-05  7:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2017-10-05 10:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2017-10-05 10:02   ` Ralf Baechle

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