mm: remove kern_addr_valid() completely

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 as there is no need for kern_addr_valid(), let's
remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221018074014.185687-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>	[m68k]
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>		[s390]
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>			[parisc]
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>		[powerpc]
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>			[csky]
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>	[arm64]
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xuerui Wang <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.osdn.me>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 6925e28ae61d..01517a5e6778 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/ia64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -182,22 +182,6 @@ ia64_phys_addr_valid (unsigned long addr)
 }
 
 /*
- * kern_addr_valid(ADDR) tests if ADDR is pointing to valid kernel
- * memory.  For the return value to be meaningful, ADDR must be >=
- * PAGE_OFFSET.  This operation can be relatively expensive (e.g.,
- * require a hash-, or multi-level tree-lookup or something of that
- * sort) but it guarantees to return TRUE only if accessing the page
- * at that address does not cause an error.  Note that there may be
- * addresses for which kern_addr_valid() returns FALSE even though an
- * access would not cause an error (e.g., this is typically true for
- * memory mapped I/O regions.
- *
- * XXX Need to implement this for IA-64.
- */
-#define kern_addr_valid(addr)	(1)
-
-
-/*
  * Now come the defines and routines to manage and access the three-level
  * page table.
  */