+ mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc: remove unneeded forward declaration of __free_pages_ok()
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Zenghui Yu (Huawei)" <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Subject: mm/page_alloc: remove unneeded forward declaration of __free_pages_ok()
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:45:04 +0800

All remaining callers of __free_pages_ok() appear after its definition, so
the forward declaration near the top of mm/page_alloc.c is no longer
needed.  Remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261022124504.75642-1-zenghui.yu@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu (Huawei) <zenghui.yu@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -213,8 +213,6 @@ gfp_t gfp_allowed_mask __read_mostly = G
 unsigned int pageblock_order __read_mostly;
 #endif
 
-static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
-			    fpi_t fpi_flags);
 static void reserve_highatomic_pageblock(struct page *page, int order,
 					 struct zone *zone);
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from zenghui.yu@linux.dev are

mm-page_alloc-mark-pages-freed-by-__free_pages_core-as-not-tagged.patch
selftests-mm-fix-khugepaged_race-build-with-older-glibc.patch
selftests-mm-skip-collapse_compound_extreme-on-thp-allocation-failure.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-unneeded-forward-declaration-of-__free_pages_ok.patch