Re: [PATCH] mm: remove the redundancy code

Mike Rapoport
2020-06-29T20:24:38Z

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:50:15AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Su Hui wrote:
>
> > remove the redundancy code, the zone_start_pfn
> > is assigned from zone->zone_start_pfn
> > Signed-off-by: Su Hui <sh_def@163.com>
>
> I don't think this is redundant, it's used by memory hotplug when onlining
> new memory.

Right, it is:

$ git grep -wn init_currently_empty_zone mm/memory_hotplug.c
mm/memory_hotplug.c:697: init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);

> > ---
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 2 --
> > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > index 3c4eb750a199..3372a8c9fbc4 100644
> > --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> > +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> > @@ -6215,8 +6215,6 @@ void __meminit init_currently_empty_zone(struct zone *zone,
> > if (zone_idx > pgdat->nr_zones)
> > pgdat->nr_zones = zone_idx;
> >
> > - zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;
> > -
> > mminit_dprintk(MMINIT_TRACE, "memmap_init",
> > "Initialising map node %d zone %lu pfns %lu -> %lu\n",
> > pgdat->node_id,
>

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Sincerely yours,
Mike.