Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: remove some unused functions

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 3/22/22 10:14, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> alternate_node_alloc and ____cache_alloc_node are always called when
> CONFIG_NUMA. So we can remove the unused !CONFIG_NUMA variant. Also
> forward declaration for alternate_node_alloc is unnecessary. Remove
> it too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---

Adding to the slab tree, thanks.

Included also this move of declaration closer to its users:

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 4ea12ddaa7db..90b16c7ae01a 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -626,8 +626,6 @@ static inline gfp_t gfp_exact_node(gfp_t flags)
 
 #else  /* CONFIG_NUMA */
 
-static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, int);
-
 static struct alien_cache *__alloc_alien_cache(int node, int entries,
                                                int batch, gfp_t gfp)
 {
@@ -3043,6 +3041,8 @@ static inline void *____cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t, int);
+
 /*
  * Try allocating on another node if PFA_SPREAD_SLAB is a mempolicy is set.
  *