[PATCH] mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely
    Heiko Carstens 
    hca at linux.ibm.com
       
    Tue Oct 18 19:03:50 AEDT 2022
    
    
  
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 03:40:14PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> Most architectures(except arm64/x86/sparc) simply return 1 for
> kern_addr_valid(), which is only used in read_kcore(), and it
> calls copy_from_kernel_nofault() which could check whether the
> address is a valid kernel address, so no need kern_addr_valid(),
> let's remove unneeded kern_addr_valid() completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
> ---
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>  arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h           |  2 -
For s390:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca at linux.ibm.com>
    
    
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