Re: [PATCH] mm: delete unused get_kernel_page()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Jul 30 2021 - 03:32:43 EST

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On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 03:18:47PM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> get_kernel_page() was added in 2012 by [1]. It was used for a while for
> NFS, but then in 2014, a refactoring [2] removed all callers, and it has
> apparently not been used since.

Looks good, pinnining by kernel virtual address doesn't really make
much sense.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

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