[PATCH RFC 02/14] mm: drop highest_memmap_pfn

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Jun 17 2025 - 11:46:53 EST


Now unused, so let's drop it.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 2 --
mm/memory.c | 2 --
mm/mm_init.c | 3 ---
mm/nommu.c | 1 -
4 files changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index f519eb7217c26..703871905fd6d 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -503,8 +503,6 @@ static inline bool folio_needs_release(struct folio *folio)
(mapping && mapping_release_always(mapping));
}

-extern unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn;
-
/*
* Maximum number of reclaim retries without progress before the OOM
* killer is consider the only way forward.
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 188b84ebf479a..a1b5575db52ac 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -146,8 +146,6 @@ __setup("norandmaps", disable_randmaps);
unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_pfn);

-unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn __read_mostly;
-
/*
* CONFIG_MMU architectures set up ZERO_PAGE in their paging_init()
*/
diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 5c21b3af216b2..1dac66c209984 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -881,9 +881,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_range(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone
unsigned long pfn, end_pfn = start_pfn + size;
struct page *page;

- if (highest_memmap_pfn < end_pfn - 1)
- highest_memmap_pfn = end_pfn - 1;
-
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
/*
* Honor reservation requested by the driver for this ZONE_DEVICE
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 38c22ea0a95c6..cd9ddbfe1af80 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
#include "internal.h"

-unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn;
int heap_stack_gap = 0;

atomic_long_t mmap_pages_allocated;
--
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