[to-be-updated] mm-mm_init-remove-zone_absent_pages_in_node.patch removed from -mm tree

[to-be-updated] mm-mm_init-remove-zone_absent_pages_in_node.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/mm_init: remove zone_absent_pages_in_node()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-mm_init-remove-zone_absent_pages_in_node.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued

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From: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/mm_init: remove zone_absent_pages_in_node()
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:41:46 +0900

zone_absent_pages_in_node() returns 0 when the zone is empty and otherwise
calls __absent_pages_in_range(), which already returns 0 for an empty
range.

So remove it and call __absent_pages_in_range() directly.

No functional change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260827144151.486192-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/mm_init.c |   20 +++-----------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-mm_init-remove-zone_absent_pages_in_node
+++ a/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1187,22 +1187,9 @@ unsigned long __init absent_pages_in_ran
 	return __absent_pages_in_range(MAX_NUMNODES, start_pfn, end_pfn);
 }
 
-/* Return the number of page frames in holes in a zone on a node */
-static unsigned long __init zone_absent_pages_in_node(int nid,
-					unsigned long zone_type,
-					unsigned long zone_start_pfn,
-					unsigned long zone_end_pfn)
-{
-	/* zone is empty, we don't have any absent pages */
-	if (zone_start_pfn == zone_end_pfn)
-		return 0;
-
-	return __absent_pages_in_range(nid, zone_start_pfn, zone_end_pfn);
-}
-
 /*
  * Return the number of pages a zone spans in a node, including holes
- * present_pages = zone_spanned_pages_in_node() - zone_absent_pages_in_node()
+ * present_pages = zone_spanned_pages_in_node() - __absent_pages_in_range()
  */
 static unsigned long __init zone_spanned_pages_in_node(int nid,
 					unsigned long zone_type,
@@ -1292,9 +1279,8 @@ static void __init calculate_node_totalp
 						     node_end_pfn,
 						     &zone_start_pfn,
 						     &zone_end_pfn);
-		absent = zone_absent_pages_in_node(pgdat->node_id, i,
-						   zone_start_pfn,
-						   zone_end_pfn);
+		absent = __absent_pages_in_range(pgdat->node_id, zone_start_pfn,
+						 zone_end_pfn);
 
 		real_size = spanned - absent;
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ekffu200098@gmail.com are

percpu-fix-the-comment-about-which-sizes-share-a-slot.patch