From: Kairui Song Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:15:44 +0000 (+0800) Subject: crash_dump: Remove no longer used saved_max_pfn X-Git-Tag: v5.8-rc1~219^2~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c5b566c2193e2af82c891daa5303c8899e61044;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git crash_dump: Remove no longer used saved_max_pfn saved_max_pfn was originally introduced in commit 92aa63a5a1bf ("[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn") It used to make sure that the user does not try to read the physical memory beyond saved_max_pfn. But since commit 921d58c0e699 ("vmcore: remove saved_max_pfn check") it's no longer used for the check. This variable doesn't have any users anymore so just remove it. [ bp: Drop the Calgary IOMMU reference from the commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Kairui Song Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200330181544.1595733-1-kasong@redhat.com --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c index c5399e80c59c5..4d13c57f370a9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/e820.c @@ -910,14 +910,6 @@ static int __init parse_memmap_one(char *p) return -EINVAL; if (!strncmp(p, "exactmap", 8)) { -#ifdef CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP - /* - * If we are doing a crash dump, we still need to know - * the real memory size before the original memory map is - * reset. - */ - saved_max_pfn = e820__end_of_ram_pfn(); -#endif e820_table->nr_entries = 0; userdef = 1; return 0; diff --git a/include/linux/crash_dump.h b/include/linux/crash_dump.h index 4664fc1871de6..bc156285d0976 100644 --- a/include/linux/crash_dump.h +++ b/include/linux/crash_dump.h @@ -97,8 +97,6 @@ extern void unregister_oldmem_pfn_is_ram(void); static inline bool is_kdump_kernel(void) { return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP */ -extern unsigned long saved_max_pfn; - /* Device Dump information to be filled by drivers */ struct vmcoredd_data { char dump_name[VMCOREDD_MAX_NAME_BYTES]; /* Unique name of the dump */ diff --git a/kernel/crash_dump.c b/kernel/crash_dump.c index 9c23ae074b401..92da32275af51 100644 --- a/kernel/crash_dump.c +++ b/kernel/crash_dump.c @@ -5,12 +5,6 @@ #include #include -/* - * If we have booted due to a crash, max_pfn will be a very low value. We need - * to know the amount of memory that the previous kernel used. - */ -unsigned long saved_max_pfn; - /* * stores the physical address of elf header of crash image *