* Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
>
> empty_bad_page and empty_bad_pte_table seems to be a relict from old
> days which is not used by any code for a long time. I have tried to find
> when exactly but this is not really all that straightforward due to many
> code movements - traces disappear around 2.4 times.
>
> Anyway no code really references neither empty_bad_page nor
> empty_bad_pte_table. We only allocate the storage which is not used by
> anybody so remove them.
>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Rich Felker <dal...@libc.org>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <jd...@addtoit.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
> Cc: <uclinux-h8-de...@lists.sourceforge.jp>
> Cc: <linux-m...@linux-mips.org>
> Cc: <linux...@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
For the x86 bits:
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Thanks,
Ingo
