The global variable "vm_total_pages" is a relict from older days. There
is only a single user that reads the variable - build_all_zonelists() -
and the first thing it does is updating it. Use a local variable in
build_all_zonelists() instead and drop the local variable.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/swap.h | 1 -
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 3 ---
mm/page-writeback.c | 6 ++----
mm/page_alloc.c | 2 ++
mm/vmscan.c | 5 -----
5 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 4c5974bb9ba94..124261acd5d0a 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -371,7 +371,6 @@ extern unsigned long mem_cgroup_shrink_node(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
extern int vm_swappiness;
extern int remove_mapping(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page);
-extern unsigned long vm_total_pages;
extern unsigned long reclaim_pages(struct list_head *page_list);
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 9b34e03e730a4..d682781cce48d 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -835,8 +835,6 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
kswapd_run(nid);
kcompactd_run(nid);
- vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
-
writeback_set_ratelimit();
memory_notify(MEM_ONLINE, &arg);
@@ -1586,7 +1584,6 @@ static int __ref __offline_pages(unsigned long start_pfn,
kcompactd_stop(node);
}
- vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
writeback_set_ratelimit();
memory_notify(MEM_OFFLINE, &arg);
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 28b3e7a675657..4e4ddd67b71e5 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2076,13 +2076,11 @@ static int page_writeback_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
* Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
*
* We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
- * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
- * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
+ * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers.
*
* However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
* all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
- * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
- * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
+ * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory, and as such we can't
* get into the old insane situation any more where we had
* large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
* non-HIGHMEM memory.
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 0c435b2ed665c..7b0dde69748c1 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -5903,6 +5903,8 @@ build_all_zonelists_init(void)
*/
void __ref build_all_zonelists(pg_data_t *pgdat)
{
+ unsigned long vm_total_pages;
+
if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING) {
build_all_zonelists_init();
} else {
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index b6d84326bdf2d..0010859747df2 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -170,11 +170,6 @@ struct scan_control {
* From 0 .. 200. Higher means more swappy.
*/
int vm_swappiness = 60;
-/*
- * The total number of pages which are beyond the high watermark within all
- * zones.
- */
-unsigned long vm_total_pages;
static void set_task_reclaim_state(struct task_struct *task,
struct reclaim_state *rs)
--
2.26.2
