Re: [patch 3/3] kernel: res_counter: remove the unused API

[Johannes Weiner]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:20:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 16-10-14 09:20:34, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 21:46 -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > All memory accounting and limiting has been switched over to the
> > > lockless page counters.  Bye, res_counter!
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This patch landed in today's linux-next (ie, next 20141016).
> > 
> > >  Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt | 197 -------------------------
> > >  include/linux/res_counter.h                | 223 -----------------------------
> > >  init/Kconfig                               |   6 -
> > >  kernel/Makefile                            |   1 -
> > >  kernel/res_counter.c                       | 211 ---------------------------
> > >  5 files changed, 638 deletions(-)
> > >  delete mode 100644 Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
> > >  delete mode 100644 include/linux/res_counter.h
> > >  delete mode 100644 kernel/res_counter.c
> > 
> > There's a last reference to CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS in
> > Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt. That reference could be dropped too,
> > couldn't it?
> ---
> From a54e375e85c814199f480cb4ee7a133a395c5a00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:15:24 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] kernel-res_counter-remove-the-unused-api-fix
> 
> ditch the last remainings of res_counter
> 
> Reported-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

That makes sense, although that document is still littered with
out-of-date and seemingly irrelevant information, which is why I
didn't bother to update it.  But your patch is still an improvement,
we should merge it.

Thanks!
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