[PATCH v3 13/18] powerpc/64e: remove mmu_linear_psize

[Nicholas Piggin]

Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of October 22, 2021 4:49 pm:
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> 
> Le 22/10/2021 à 00:30, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
>> mmu_linear_psize is only set at boot once on 64e, is not necessarily
>> the correct size of the linear map pages, and is never used anywhere.
>> Remove it.
> 
> mmu_linear_psize is defined as a macro in:
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>      arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/mmu-hash.h, line 152 (as a macro)
>      arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/mmu-40x.h, line 66 (as a macro)
>      arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/mmu-44x.h, line 150 (as a macro)
>      arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/32/mmu-8xx.h, line 173 (as a macro)
> 
> Is that needed at all or should is be cleaned, if nothing else than 64s 
> uses it ?
> 
> Otherwise, why not do the same with 64e and define it as a macro ? Maybe 
> that would help minimising the amount of ifdefs.

I prefer to remove it entirely, to avoid situations like 64e where it 
was being used without understanding what the value really was.

32e can come in a later cleanup to avoid making this series any bigger.

Thanks,
Nick