Re: [PATCH] sparc64: remove unused function straddles_64bit_va_hole()

[David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:15:51 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 18:22:11 +0400
> 
>> Nobody uses straddles_64bit_va_hole(). Remove it
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Well, that's a bug, because we have to keep applications from
> being to mmap() things into this virtual address range.
> 
> I'll look into the GIT history to see how it has erroneously
> become unused.

Ok, I see what happened.

When Al viro removed sparc_brk() from this file, it removed the
last user.  And legitimately so.

I'll therefore apply your patch, thanks.
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