Re: [PATCH] mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely

Kefeng Wang [off-list ref] writes:

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 <redacted>
---
 arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h          |  2 -
 arch/arc/include/asm/pgtable-bits-arcv2.h |  2 -
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-nommu.h      |  2 -
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h            |  4 --
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h          |  2 -
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c                       | 47 -----------------------
 arch/arm64/mm/pageattr.c                  |  3 +-
 arch/csky/include/asm/pgtable.h           |  3 --
 arch/hexagon/include/asm/page.h           |  7 ----
 arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h           | 16 --------
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgtable.h      |  2 -
 arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h        |  2 -
 arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_no.h        |  1 -
 arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgtable.h     |  3 --
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h           |  2 -
 arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h          |  2 -
 arch/openrisc/include/asm/pgtable.h       |  2 -
 arch/parisc/include/asm/pgtable.h         | 15 --------
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h        |  7 ----

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers