linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MEMORY MANAGEMENT: Remove deprecated memclear_highpage

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Message-ID: <20100311144243.GA28203@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:42:43 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MEMORY MANAGEMENT: Remove deprecated memclear_highpage_flush().

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
> Since this routine is all of static, deprecated and unreferenced, it
> seems safe to delete it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>

> diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
> index 74152c0..c77f913 100644
> --- a/include/linux/highmem.h
> +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
> @@ -173,12 +173,6 @@ static inline void zero_user(struct page *page,
>  	zero_user_segments(page, start, start + size, 0, 0);
>  }
> 
> -static inline void __deprecated memclear_highpage_flush(struct page *page,
> -			unsigned int offset, unsigned int size)
> -{
> -	zero_user(page, offset, size);
> -}
> -
>  #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE
> 
>  static inline void copy_user_highpage(struct page *to, struct page *from,
> 
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> 
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