linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/10] mm: remove alloc_vm

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Message-Id: <20200930175133.1252382-11-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:51:33 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
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        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: [PATCH 10/10] mm: remove alloc_vm_area

All users are gone now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 include/linux/vmalloc.h |  5 +----
 mm/nommu.c              |  7 ------
 mm/vmalloc.c            | 48 -----------------------------------------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 59 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index c77efeac242514..938eaf9517e266 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ extern struct vm_struct *__get_vm_area_caller(unsigned long size,
 					unsigned long flags,
 					unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 					const void *caller);
+void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area);
 extern struct vm_struct *remove_vm_area(const void *addr);
 extern struct vm_struct *find_vm_area(const void *addr);
 
@@ -204,10 +205,6 @@ static inline void set_vm_flush_reset_perms(void *addr)
 }
 #endif
 
-/* Allocate/destroy a 'vmalloc' VM area. */
-extern struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes);
-extern void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area);
-
 /* for /dev/kmem */
 extern long vread(char *buf, char *addr, unsigned long count);
 extern long vwrite(char *buf, char *addr, unsigned long count);
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 75a327149af127..9272f30e4c4726 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -354,13 +354,6 @@ void vm_unmap_aliases(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_unmap_aliases);
 
-struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
-{
-	BUG();
-	return NULL;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);
-
 void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
 {
 	BUG();
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index e2a2ded8d93478..3bc5b832451ef2 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3083,54 +3083,6 @@ int remap_vmalloc_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *addr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_vmalloc_range);
 
-static int f(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data)
-{
-	pte_t ***p = data;
-
-	if (p) {
-		*(*p) = pte;
-		(*p)++;
-	}
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
- * @size:	   size of the area
- * @ptes:	   returns the PTEs for the address space
- *
- * Returns:	NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
- *
- * This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
- * allocates pagetables to map that range.  No actual mappings
- * are created.
- *
- * If @ptes is non-NULL, pointers to the PTEs (in init_mm)
- * allocated for the VM area are returned.
- */
-struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
-{
-	struct vm_struct *area;
-
-	area = get_vm_area_caller(size, VM_IOREMAP,
-				__builtin_return_address(0));
-	if (area == NULL)
-		return NULL;
-
-	/*
-	 * This ensures that page tables are constructed for this region
-	 * of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.
-	 */
-	if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->addr,
-				size, f, ptes ? &ptes : NULL)) {
-		free_vm_area(area);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
-	return area;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);
-
 void free_vm_area(struct vm_struct *area)
 {
 	struct vm_struct *ret;
-- 
2.28.0