linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Drop unused MAX_PHYSADDR

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Date:   Thu, 23 Jul 2020 19:15:42 -0400
From:   Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
To:     x86@...nel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] x86/mm: Drop unused MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS

The macro is not used anywhere, and has an incorrect value (going by the
comment) on x86_64 since commit
  c898faf91b3e ("x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits")

To avoid confusion, just remove the definition.

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h
index 199218719a86..6bfc878f6771 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -10,24 +10,20 @@
  *    field of the struct page
  *
  * SECTION_SIZE_BITS		2^n: size of each section
- * MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS		2^n: max size of physical address space
- * MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS		2^n: how much memory we can have in that space
+ * MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS		2^n: max size of physical address space
  *
  */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 # ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
 #  define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	29
-#  define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS	36
 #  define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	36
 # else
 #  define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	26
-#  define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS	32
 #  define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	32
 # endif
 #else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 # define SECTION_SIZE_BITS	27 /* matt - 128 is convenient right now */
-# define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS	(pgtable_l5_enabled() ? 52 : 44)
 # define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS	(pgtable_l5_enabled() ? 52 : 46)
 #endif
 
-- 
2.26.2