[PATCH] include: asm-generic: page.h: Remove useless get_user_page and free_user_page

[Chen Gang]

Thank all of you for your work. At present, it is also queued into akpm
tree, and will be seen in the next-tree soon.

For me, this patch looks cross multi-archs, but it is still very simple.
I found this patch only because I am learning mm sub-system.

I am reading mm headers to be familiar with them, so can understand mm
globally based on code. These headers are common sense for most mm/arch
members, but for me (almost a newbie), they are not (need be familiar).


Thanks.

On 11/20/15 00:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2015 16:18:43 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 12:25:45PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Thursday 19 November 2015 03:40:25 Chen Gang wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/page.h b/include/asm-generic/page.h
>>>> index 37d1fe2..67cfb7d 100644
>>>> --- a/include/asm-generic/page.h
>>>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/page.h
>>>> @@ -24,9 +24,6 @@
>>>>  
>>>>  #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>>>>  
>>>> -#define get_user_page(vaddr)           __get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL)
>>>> -#define free_user_page(page, addr)     free_page(addr)
>>>> -
>>>>  #define clear_page(page)       memset((page), 0, PAGE_SIZE)
>>>>  #define copy_page(to,from)     memcpy((to), (from), PAGE_SIZE)
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks good. I can take the asm-generic portion when you split it up, and
>>> I can also help you merge the remaining patches in case some of
>>> the arch maintainers fail to pick them up. I think all five of them
>>> are actively maintained though, so the patches should just go through
>>> the respective architecture trees.
>>
>> Or we just ack the patch and have it go through one tree, which I think
>> is the most sensible.  I can't imagine that there would be any major
>> conflicts here, surely no one is constantly changing their asm/page.h ?
> 
> Yes, good point, there is really very little potential for conflicts
> here. I've applied it into my asm-generic tree for now, but will
> revert it if we get regressions or NAKs.
> 
> For some reason, the patch was whitespace broken, but I managed to
> extract it from the attachment.
> 
> 	Arnd
> 

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