+ mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/sparse.c: remove NULL check in clear_hwpoisoned_pages()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages.patch

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From: "Alastair D'Silva" <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/sparse.c: remove NULL check in clear_hwpoisoned_pages()

There is no possibility for memmap to be NULL in the current codebase.

This check was added in commit 95a4774d055c ("memory-hotplug: update
mce_bad_pages when removing the memory") where memmap was originally
inited to NULL, and only conditionally given a value.

The code that could have passed a NULL has been removed by commit
ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug"), so there is no
longer a possibility that memmap can be NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190829035151.20975-1-alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alastair D'Silva <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/sparse.c |    3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -896,9 +896,6 @@ static void clear_hwpoisoned_pages(struc
 {
 	int i;
 
-	if (!memmap)
-		return;
-
 	/*
 	 * A further optimization is to have per section refcounted
 	 * num_poisoned_pages.  But that would need more space per memmap, so
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from alastair@xxxxxxxxxxx are

mm-dont-manually-decrement-num_poisoned_pages.patch
mm-remove-null-check-in-clear_hwpoisoned_pages.patch




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