Re: [PATCH v5 5/7] mm, hmm: Use devm semantics for hmm_devmem_{add, remove}

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Sep 14 2018 - 09:18:38 EST


On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:22:27PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> devm semantics arrange for resources to be torn down when
> device-driver-probe fails or when device-driver-release completes.
> Similar to devm_memremap_pages() there is no need to support an explicit
> remove operation when the users properly adhere to devm semantics.
>
> Note that devm_kzalloc() automatically handles allocating node-local
> memory.
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Given that we have no single user of these function I still think we
should just remove them.