Re: [PATCH 2/2] page_alloc: Remove argument to find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes

From: Kautuk Consul
Date: Wed Mar 14 2012 - 06:42:37 EST


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 AM, David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Kautuk Consul wrote:
>
>> The find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() function does not utiilize
>> the argument to it.
>>
>
> It could, though, if we made it to do so.
>
>> Removing this argument from the function prototype as well as its
>> caller, i.e. free_area_init_nodes().
>>
>
> Not sure if we'd ever want it or not for other purposes, but
> find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() could easily be made to use the passed
> in array rather than zone_movable_pfn in file scope directly.  That seems
> to be why it took an argument in the first place.
>

No function is calling this function and I just wanted to remove the
slight overhead of passing an
argument which does not get used.
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