On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 05:00:45PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
>
> empty_bad_page and empty_bad_pte_table seems to be a relict from old
> days which is not used by any code for a long time. I have tried to find
> when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to many
> code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times.
>
> Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor
> empty_bad_pte_table. We only allocate the storage which is not used by
> anybody so remove them.
>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
On MIPS the empty_bad_page_table definition was deleted in 2549fa57708d
("Small cleanups including deletion of two variables 4k each ...") in the
MIPS git tree on 2003-07-29, so
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
for getting rid of the rest a mere 14 years later.
Thanks,
Ralf
