The patch titled Subject: mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix remove unneeded initialization, per David Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix +++ a/mm/sparse.c @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned struct mem_section *ms = __pfn_to_section(pfn); bool section_is_early = early_section(ms); struct page *memmap = NULL; - bool empty = false; + bool empty; unsigned long *subsection_map = ms->usage ? &ms->usage->subsection_map[0] : NULL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-hotplug-fix-hot-remove-failure-in-sparsememvmemmap-case-fix.patch mm.patch memcg-optimize-memorynuma_stat-like-memorystat-fix.patch selftest-add-mremap_dontunmap-selftest-fix.patch selftest-add-mremap_dontunmap-selftest-v7-checkpatch-fixes.patch hugetlb_cgroup-add-reservation-accounting-for-private-mappings-fix.patch hugetlb_cgroup-add-accounting-for-shared-mappings-fix.patch mm-migratec-migrate-pg_readahead-flag-fix.patch proc-faster-open-read-close-with-permanent-files-checkpatch-fixes.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-fix.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch mm-add-vm_insert_pages-fix.patch net-zerocopy-use-vm_insert_pages-for-tcp-rcv-zerocopy-fix.patch seq_read-info-message-about-buggy-next-functions-fix.patch drivers-tty-serial-sh-scic-suppress-warning.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch