linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove some unused functions

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Message-ID: <98b76e35-0858-f097-7fa3-f3c816681a88@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Apr 2022 14:16:36 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <cl@...ux.com>, <penberg@...nel.org>, <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <vbabka@...e.cz>
CC:     <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove some unused functions

On 2022/3/22 17:14, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> alternate_node_alloc and ____cache_alloc_node are always called when
> CONFIG_NUMA. So we can remove the unused !CONFIG_NUMA variant. Also
> forward declaration for alternate_node_alloc is unnecessary. Remove
> it too.
> 

friendly ping. :)

> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
> ---
>  mm/slab.c | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
> index d9dec7a8fd79..81301df47057 100644
> --- a/mm/slab.c
> +++ b/mm/slab.c
> @@ -619,18 +619,6 @@ static inline int cache_free_alien(struct kmem_cache *cachep, void *objp)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static inline void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> -		gfp_t flags)
> -{
> -	return NULL;
> -}
> -
> -static inline void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
> -		 gfp_t flags, int nodeid)
> -{
> -	return NULL;
> -}
> -
>  static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
>  {
>  	return flags & ~__GFP_NOFAIL;
> @@ -639,7 +627,6 @@ static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
>  #else	/* CONFIG_NUMA */
>  
>  static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, int);
> -static void *alternate_node_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
>  
>  static struct alien_cache *__alloc_alien_cache(int node, int entries,
>  						int batch, gfp_t gfp)
>