linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 35/35] mm: remove nth

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Message-ID: <20250821200701.1329277-36-david@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:07:01 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH RFC 35/35] mm: remove nth_page()

Now that all users are gone, let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/mm.h                   | 2 --
 tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h | 1 -
 2 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index f59ad1f9fc792..3ded0db8322f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -210,9 +210,7 @@ extern unsigned long sysctl_admin_reserve_kbytes;
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
 bool page_range_contiguous(const struct page *page, unsigned long nr_pages);
-#define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n))
 #else
-#define nth_page(page,n) ((page) + (n))
 static inline bool page_range_contiguous(const struct page *page,
 		unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
diff --git a/tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h b/tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h
index 5bd9e6e806254..121ae78d6e885 100644
--- a/tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h
+++ b/tools/testing/scatterlist/linux/mm.h
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ static inline unsigned long page_to_phys(struct page *page)
 
 #define page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long)(page) / PAGE_SIZE)
 #define pfn_to_page(pfn) (void *)((pfn) * PAGE_SIZE)
-#define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n))
 
 #define __min(t1, t2, min1, min2, x, y) ({              \
 	t1 min1 = (x);                                  \
-- 
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