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* [PATCH] ring-buffer: remove obsolete comment for free_buffer_page()
@ 2023-03-15 14:24 Vlastimil Babka
  2023-03-15 15:51 ` Mukesh Ojha
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Vlastimil Babka @ 2023-03-15 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Rostedt, Masami Hiramatsu, Ingo Molnar
  Cc: linux-trace-kernel, linux-kernel, patches, Vlastimil Babka,
	Mike Rapoport

The comment refers to mm/slob.o which is being removed. It comes from
commit ed56829cb319 ("ring_buffer: reset buffer page when freeing") and
according to Steven the borrowed code was a page mapcount and mapping
reset, which was later removed by commit e4c2ce82ca27 ("ring_buffer:
allocate buffer page pointer"). Thus the comment is not accurate anyway,
remove it.

Reported-by: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: e4c2ce82ca27 ("ring_buffer: allocate buffer page pointer")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index af50d931b020..c6f47b6cfd5f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -354,10 +354,6 @@ static void rb_init_page(struct buffer_data_page *bpage)
 	local_set(&bpage->commit, 0);
 }
 
-/*
- * Also stolen from mm/slob.c. Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for pointing
- * this issue out.
- */
 static void free_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *bpage)
 {
 	free_page((unsigned long)bpage->page);
-- 
2.39.2


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