linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove dead code totalram_pages

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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 08:50:42 +0800
From:   Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Cc:     Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove dead code totalram_pages_set()

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 07:48:09AM -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 17, 2019, at 1:44 AM, Wei Yang <richardw.yang@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> 
>> No one use totalram_pages_set(), just remote it.
>
>It is unlikely that this is unintentional, but can you figure out which commit removed the last caller just in case?

Took a look into the history. This function is introduced in 

commit 'ca79b0c211af' (mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages
variables to atomic)

Even in this commit, no one use this function.

Will include this in next version.

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Wei Yang
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