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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-11-15 17:34:22 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-11-15 18:21:03 -0800
commit8745808fda84c638e45cc860c8fb600bf4b0a2a6 (patch)
tree4cc0a5ff3ccf76e73b2fa4bd535e40f261e79e0b /arch/mips
parenta2e16731728a285bcfcece0feaaa8cf478d24022 (diff)
downloadlinux-8745808fda84c638e45cc860c8fb600bf4b0a2a6.tar.gz
mm, arch: remove empty_bad_page*
empty_bad_page() and empty_bad_pte_table() seem to be relics 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.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004150045.30755-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linus-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h8
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h
index 67fe6dc5211c..0036ea0c7173 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable-64.h
@@ -31,12 +31,7 @@
  * tables. Each page table is also a single 4K page, giving 512 (==
  * PTRS_PER_PTE) 8 byte ptes. Each pud entry is initialized to point to
  * invalid_pmd_table, each pmd entry is initialized to point to
- * invalid_pte_table, each pte is initialized to 0. When memory is low,
- * and a pmd table or a page table allocation fails, empty_bad_pmd_table
- * and empty_bad_page_table is returned back to higher layer code, so
- * that the failure is recognized later on. Linux does not seem to
- * handle these failures very well though. The empty_bad_page_table has
- * invalid pte entries in it, to force page faults.
+ * invalid_pte_table, each pte is initialized to 0.
  *
  * Kernel mappings: kernel mappings are held in the swapper_pg_table.
  * The layout is identical to userspace except it's indexed with the
@@ -175,7 +170,6 @@
 	printk("%s:%d: bad pgd %016lx.\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, pgd_val(e))
 
 extern pte_t invalid_pte_table[PTRS_PER_PTE];
-extern pte_t empty_bad_page_table[PTRS_PER_PTE];
 
 #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
 /*