[PATCH 1/8] sched: Remove unused TASK_SIZE_OF

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Dec 22 04:28:57 AEDT 2021


On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:00 PM <guoren at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>
>
> This macro isn't used in Linux, now. Delete in include/linux/sched.h
> and arch's include/asm. This would confuse people who are
> implementing the COMPAT feature for architecture.
>
> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren at linux.alibaba.com>

It would help to list how long it has been unused for. Looking through
the git history, I see commit a06db751c321 ("pagemap: check
permissions and capabilities at open time") removing the last user.

I would normally offer to take the entire series through the asm-generic
tree, as I do for this kind of cross-architecture work. I'll probably
not have time before the merge window to pick it up though, so it
may be better to go through the architecture trees, or possibly
linux-mm for anything that fails to get picked up.

For the series:

Review-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>


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