Re: [PATCH v2 rebased 3/9] powerpc/mm: Remove CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES

From: Nicholas Piggin
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 00:50:32 EST


Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of November 26, 2021 3:52 am:
> CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES is always selected by hash book3s/64.
> CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES is never selected by other platforms.
>
> Remove it.

I guess there is some remnants of code/data to build 64s hash without
slices. Maybe without any huge page support? I guess it's probably
broken if it never =n, and not worth maintaining anyway?

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h | 4 ++--
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h | 7 -------
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/slice.h | 13 ++-----------
> arch/powerpc/kernel/paca.c | 5 -----
> arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/Makefile | 3 +--
> arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_utils.c | 14 --------------
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 4 ----
> 8 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)