mm: remove vm_total_pages
The global variable "vm_total_pages" is a relic from older days. There is only a single user that reads the variable - build_all_zonelists() - and the first thing it does is update it. Use a local variable in build_all_zonelists() instead and remove the global variable. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200619132410.23859-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -2076,13 +2076,11 @@ static int page_writeback_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
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* Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
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* We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
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* related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
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* comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
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* related to pages that could be allocated for buffers.
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*
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* However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
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* all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
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* is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
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* totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
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* is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory, and as such we can't
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* get into the old insane situation any more where we had
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* large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
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* non-HIGHMEM memory.
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