The conversion from using a slab cache to quicklist left some residual dead code. I note that in the conversion it now always allocates a whole page for the pgd, rather than the 32 bytes needed for a PAE pgd. Was this intended? Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 22 +++++----------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) =================================================================== --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c @@ -746,24 +746,12 @@ struct kmem_cache *pmd_cache; void __init pgtable_cache_init(void) { - size_t pgd_size = PTRS_PER_PGD*sizeof(pgd_t); - - if (PTRS_PER_PMD > 1) { + if (PTRS_PER_PMD > 1) pmd_cache = kmem_cache_create("pmd", - PTRS_PER_PMD*sizeof(pmd_t), - PTRS_PER_PMD*sizeof(pmd_t), - SLAB_PANIC, - pmd_ctor); - if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD) { - /* If we're in PAE mode and have a non-shared - kernel pmd, then the pgd size must be a - page size. This is because the pgd_list - links through the page structure, so there - can only be one pgd per page for this to - work. */ - pgd_size = PAGE_SIZE; - } - } + PTRS_PER_PMD*sizeof(pmd_t), + PTRS_PER_PMD*sizeof(pmd_t), + SLAB_PANIC, + pmd_ctor); } /* -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/