From: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:58:21 +0000, Wei Yang wrote: > The dummy entry is introduced in the initial implementation of lmb in > commit 7c8c6b9776fb ("powerpc: Merge lmb.c and make MM initialization > use it."). > > As the comment says the empty dummy entry is to simplify the code. > > /* Create a dummy zero size LMB which will get coalesced away later. > * This simplifies the lmb_add() code below... > */ > > [...] Applied to for-next branch of memblock.git tree, thanks! [1/1] mm/memblock: remove empty dummy entry commit: e5d1fdecfaf8470bad3874d00c7921e3883495b7 tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock branch: for-next -- Sincerely yours, Mike.