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/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Dike <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Michal Hocko 2017-11-15 17:34:22 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 8745808fda
7 changed files with 2 additions and 54 deletions

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@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
/* allocated in paging_init, zeroed in mem_init, and unchanged thereafter */
unsigned long *empty_zero_page = NULL;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(empty_zero_page);
/* allocated in paging_init and unchanged thereafter */
static unsigned long *empty_bad_page = NULL;
/*
* Initialized during boot, and readonly for initializing page tables
@ -146,7 +144,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
int i;
empty_zero_page = (unsigned long *) alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
empty_bad_page = (unsigned long *) alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(zones_size); i++)
zones_size[i] = 0;