+ init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality.patch added to mm-new branch

The patch titled
     Subject: init/Kconfig: drop ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <[email protected]>
Subject: init/Kconfig: drop ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 16:55:43 +0300

sh was the only architecture that selected ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY.

With NUMA support on sh gone, there is no need in this configuration
option.

Remove it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 init/Kconfig |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- a/init/Kconfig~init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality
+++ a/init/Kconfig
@@ -1011,17 +1011,10 @@ config CC_STRINGOP_OVERFLOW
 config ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
 	bool
 
-# For architectures that (ab)use NUMA to represent different memory regions
-# all cpu-local but of different latencies, such as SuperH.
-#
-config ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
-	bool
-
 config NUMA_BALANCING
 	bool "Memory placement aware NUMA scheduler"
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
 	depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE
-	depends on !ARCH_WANT_NUMA_VARIABLE_LOCALITY
 	depends on SMP && NUMA_MIGRATION && !PREEMPT_RT
 	help
 	  This option adds support for automatic NUMA aware memory/task placement.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-split-out-mm_init-and-memblock-declarations-from-internalh.patch
mm-split-out-mm_init-and-memblock-declarations-from-internalh-fix.patch
mm-split-out-sparse-declarations-from-internalh.patch
mm-split-out-vmalloc-declarations-from-internalh.patch
sh-remove-config_numa-and-realted-configuration-options.patch
sh-mm-remove-numac.patch
sh-mm-drop-allocate_pgdat.patch
sh-remove-setup_bootmem_node-and-plat_mem_setup.patch
sh-drop-dead-code-guarded-by-ifdef-config_numa.patch
sh-drop-include-asm-mmzoneh.patch
init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality.patch
sh-init-remove-call-the-memblock_set_node.patch
sh-remove-sparsemem-related-entries-from-kconfig.patch
sh-drop-include-asm-sparsememh.patch