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

[Mike Rapoport]

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>

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>

> ---
> 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
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.