linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Drop unused MAX_PHYSADDR

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 08:04:41 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>, 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: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Drop unused MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS

On 7/23/20 4:15 PM, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> This #define is not used anywhere, and has the wrong value on x86_64.

Yeah, it certainly is unused.

> I tried digging into the history a bit, but it seems to have been unused
> even in the initial merge of sparsemem in v2.6.13, when it was first
> defined.

Yep, I don't even remember why we thought we needed it back then.  Feel
free to add my ack on these, or at least the x86 one.