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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3, part4 38/39] mm/hotplug: prepare for removing
	num_physpages
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:18:56 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:54:57PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
> Prepare for removing num_physpages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Hi all,
> 	Sorry for my mistake that my previous patch series has been screwed up.
> So I regenerate a third version and also set up a git tree at:
> 	git://github.com/jiangliu/linux.git mem_init
> 	Any help to review and test are welcomed!
> 
> 	Regards!
> 	Gerry
> ---
>  mm/memory_hotplug.c |    4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> index 97454b3..9b1b494 100644
> --- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> +++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
> @@ -751,10 +751,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(restore_online_page_callback);
>  
>  void __online_page_set_limits(struct page *page)
>  {
> -	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
> -
> -	if (pfn >= num_physpages)
> -		num_physpages = pfn + 1;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__online_page_set_limits);

How can this be correct?
With this change __online_page_set_limits() is now a nop.

	Sam