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>
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 28b3e7a..4e4ddd6 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2076,13 +2076,11 @@ static int page_writeback_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
* Called early on to tune the page writeback dirty limits.
*
* We used to scale dirty pages according to how total memory
- * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers (by
- * comparing nr_free_buffer_pages() to vm_total_pages.
+ * related to pages that could be allocated for buffers.
*
* However, that was when we used "dirty_ratio" to scale with
* all memory, and we don't do that any more. "dirty_ratio"
- * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory (by subtracting
- * totalhigh_pages from vm_total_pages), and as such we can't
+ * is now applied to total non-HIGHPAGE memory, and as such we can't
* get into the old insane situation any more where we had
* large amounts of dirty pages compared to a small amount of
* non-HIGHMEM memory.