mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
v3.8 commit b24f53a0 ("mm: mempolicy: Add MPOL_MF_LAZY") introduced MPOL_MF_LAZY, and included it in the MPOL_MF_VALID flags; but a720094d ("mm: mempolicy: Hide MPOL_NOOP and MPOL_MF_LAZY from userspace for now") immediately removed it from MPOL_MF_VALID flags, pending further review. "This will need to be revisited", but it has not been reinstated. The present state is confusing: there is dead code in mm/mempolicy.c to handle MPOL_MF_LAZY cases which can never occur. Remove that: it can be resurrected later if necessary. But keep the definition of MPOL_MF_LAZY, which must remain in the UAPI, even though it always fails with EINVAL. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1553041659-46787-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com/ links to a previous request to remove MPOL_MF_LAZY. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/80c9665c-1c3f-17ba-21a3-f6115cebf7d@google.comSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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