That applies only to a certain kernel version which I don't remember exactly, but I know for sure that the kernel versions on Raspbian Stretch from the beginning doesn't need it anymore, it "sees" all the available memory. You can easily check that for example with free -m and adding the gpu_mem you have configured to that.
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