The patch titled Subject: mm: remove unneeded local variable in free_area_init_core has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-remove-unneeded-local-variable-in-free_area_init_core.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-remove-unneeded-local-variable-in-free_area_init_core.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-remove-unneeded-local-variable-in-free_area_init_core.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: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: remove unneeded local variable in free_area_init_core Local variable 'zone_start_pfn' is not needed since there's only one call site in free_area_init_core(). Let's remove it and pass zone->zone_start_pfn directly to init_currently_empty_zone(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122135956.5946-6-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-remove-unneeded-local-variable-in-free_area_init_core +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -6925,7 +6925,6 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(s for (j = 0; j < MAX_NR_ZONES; j++) { struct zone *zone = pgdat->node_zones + j; unsigned long size, freesize, memmap_pages; - unsigned long zone_start_pfn = zone->zone_start_pfn; size = zone->spanned_pages; freesize = zone->present_pages; @@ -6974,7 +6973,7 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(s set_pageblock_order(); setup_usemap(zone); - init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone_start_pfn, size); + init_currently_empty_zone(zone, zone->zone_start_pfn, size); memmap_init_zone(zone); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-prototype-warning-from-kernel-test-robot.patch mm-rename-memmap_init-and-memmap_init_zone.patch mm-simplify-parater-of-function-memmap_init_zone.patch mm-simplify-parameter-of-setup_usemap.patch mm-remove-unneeded-local-variable-in-free_area_init_core.patch