mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tue, 3 Oct 2023 09:24:18 +0000 (02:24 -0700)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 25 Oct 2023 23:47:16 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
commit2cafb582173f3870240af90de3f31d18b0728882
tree02b61983f3dc08c777239349e22e9b86ca2f741e
parent35ec8fa0207b3c7f7c3c22337c9a507d7b291626
mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code

v3.8 commit b24f53a0bea3 ("mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_MF_LAZY") introduced
MPOL_MF_LAZY, and included it in the MPOL_MF_VALID flags; but a720094ded8
("mm: mempolicy: Hide MPOL_NOOP and MPOL_MF_LAZY from userspace for now")
immediately removed it from MPOL_MF_VALID flags, pending further review.
"This will need to be revisited", but it has not been reinstated.

The present state is confusing: there is dead code in mm/mempolicy.c to
handle MPOL_MF_LAZY cases which can never occur.  Remove that: it can be
resurrected later if necessary.  But keep the definition of MPOL_MF_LAZY,
which must remain in the UAPI, even though it always fails with EINVAL.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1553041659-46787-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com/
links to a previous request to remove MPOL_MF_LAZY.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80c9665c-1c3f-17ba-21a3-f6115cebf7d@google.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/uapi/linux/mempolicy.h
mm/mempolicy.c