[RFC PATCH] arm64:mm: delete max_mapnr init.

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Thu Sep 11 03:36:13 PDT 2014


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:16:13AM +0100, Ganapatrao Kulkarni wrote:
> setting max_mapnr results in to error, if enabled with CONFIG_NUMA,
> which i have to replace with function set_max_mapnr.
> However this variable is not used in arm64(with default defconfig) and better to
> delete instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <ganapatrao.kulkarni at caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> index 5472c24..548bd01 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> @@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ static void __init free_unused_memmap(void)
>   */
>  void __init mem_init(void)
>  {
> -	max_mapnr   = pfn_to_page(max_pfn + PHYS_PFN_OFFSET) - mem_map;

I think it's cleaner to call set_max_mapnr in case this grows a use in core
code outside of pfn_valid (which we always override).

Will



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