They are unnecessary: "zero" can be used in place of "hugetlb_zero" and
passing extra2 == NULL is equivalent to infinity.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 -
kernel/sysctl.c | 9 +++------
mm/hugetlb.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ pte_t *huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud);
#endif
extern unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
-extern const unsigned long hugetlb_zero, hugetlb_infinity;
extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages;
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1240,8 +1240,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = hugetlb_sysctl_handler,
- .extra1 = (void *)&hugetlb_zero,
- .extra2 = (void *)&hugetlb_infinity,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
},
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
{
@@ -1250,8 +1249,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = &hugetlb_mempolicy_sysctl_handler,
- .extra1 = (void *)&hugetlb_zero,
- .extra2 = (void *)&hugetlb_infinity,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
},
#endif
{
@@ -1274,8 +1272,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.maxlen = sizeof(unsigned long),
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = hugetlb_overcommit_handler,
- .extra1 = (void *)&hugetlb_zero,
- .extra2 = (void *)&hugetlb_infinity,
+ .extra1 = &zero,
},
#endif
{
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
#include <linux/node.h>
#include "internal.h"
-const unsigned long hugetlb_zero = 0, hugetlb_infinity = ~0UL;
unsigned long hugepages_treat_as_movable;
int hugetlb_max_hstate __read_mostly;
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