[PATCH v2] um/mm: remove redundant assignment of max_low_pfn

[Wei Yang]

Would someone pick up this one?

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 03:41:50AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
>Current calculation of max_low_pfn is introduced in commit af84eab20891
>("[PATCH] uml: fix LVM crash"). It is intended to set max_low_pfn to the
>same value as max_pfn.
>
>But I am not sure why the max_pfn is set to totalram_pages, which
>represents the number of usable pages in system instead of an absolute
>page frame number. (The change history stops there.)
>
>While we have already calculate it in setup_physmem(), so not necessary
>to do it again.
>
>Also this would help changing totalram_pages accounting, since we plan
>to move the accounting into __free_pages_core(). With this change,
>totalram_pages may not represent the total usable pages at this point,
>since some pages would be deferred initialized.
>
>Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang at gmail.com>
>CC: Jeff Dike <jdike at linux.intel.com>
>Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade at yahoo.it>
>Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com>
>CC: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
>CC: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>
>CC: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
>
>---
>v2: remove redundant assignment of max_low_pfn
>---
> arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
>index ca91accd64fc..a5b4fe2ad931 100644
>--- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
>+++ b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c
>@@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
> 
> 	/* this will put all low memory onto the freelists */
> 	memblock_free_all();
>-	max_low_pfn = totalram_pages();
> 	max_pfn = max_low_pfn;
> 	kmalloc_ok = 1;
> }
>-- 
>2.34.1

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