Re: [PATCH] mm: delete unused get_kernel_page()

[David Hildenbrand]

On 30.07.21 00:18, John Hubbard wrote:
> get_kernel_page() was added in 2012 by [1]. It was used for a while for
> NFS, but then in 2014, a refactoring [2] removed all callers, and it has
> apparently not been used since.
>
> Remove get_kernel_page() because it has no callers.
>
> [1] commit 18022c5d8627 ("mm: add get_kernel_page[s] for pinning of
>      kernel addresses for I/O")
> [2] commit 91f79c43d1b5 ("new helper: iov_iter_get_pages_alloc()")
>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a minor decluttering: I ran across this while looking for something
> else entirely, and then noticed that it's been orphaned for quite a long
> time. It seems like only the plural form of this function is needed
> these days, and probably in the coming days as well.
>
> thanks,
> John Hubbard
> NVIDIA

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb