From: Wen Jiang <jiangwenxiaomi@gmail.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org, urezki@gmail.com, will@kernel.org
Cc: Xueyuan.chen21@gmail.com, ajd@linux.ibm.com,
anshuman.khandual@arm.com, baohua@kernel.org, chleroy@kernel.org,
david@kernel.org, dev.jain@arm.com, jiangwen6@xiaomi.com,
leo.yan@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
maddy@linux.ibm.com, mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com,
rppt@kernel.org, ryan.roberts@arm.com
Subject: [PATCH v9 04/10] arm64/hugetlb: drop the init_mm special case in clear_flush()
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:28:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260923062832.479455-5-jiangwen6@xiaomi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260923062832.479455-1-jiangwen6@xiaomi.com>
clear_flush() calls flush_tlb_kernel_range() when mm is &init_mm. This
was added by commit 06fc959fcff7 ("arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped
pages in vmap") because vmap called set_huge_pte_at(&init_mm, ...).
Now that vmap uses pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge(), mm/vmalloc.c is no
longer a caller of set_huge_pte_at() on arm64. The only remaining
callers passing &init_mm are in arch/powerpc, which uses its own
implementation. Remove the dead branch.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xiaomi.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 8e799c1fe0aa6..ce247b06fe03d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -206,10 +206,7 @@ static void clear_flush(struct mm_struct *mm,
for (i = 0; i < ncontig; i++, addr += pgsize, ptep++)
__ptep_get_and_clear_anysz(mm, addr, ptep, pgsize);
- if (mm == &init_mm)
- flush_tlb_kernel_range(saddr, addr);
- else
- __flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
+ __flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
}
void set_huge_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-23 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-23 6:28 [PATCH v9 00/10] mm/vmalloc: Speed up ioremap, vmalloc and vmap with contiguous memory Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 01/10] arm64/mm: add pte_set_huge() and pte_clear_huge() Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 21:30 ` Barry Song
2026-09-28 2:42 ` Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 02/10] powerpc/8xx: add pte_set_huge() Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 03/10] mm/vmalloc: use pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge() for PTE-level block mappings Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 21:38 ` Barry Song
2026-09-23 21:57 ` Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)
2026-09-29 2:21 ` Wen Jiang
2026-09-23 6:28 ` Wen Jiang [this message]
2026-09-23 21:23 ` [PATCH v9 04/10] arm64/hugetlb: drop the init_mm special case in clear_flush() Barry Song
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 05/10] arm64/vmalloc: allow arch_vmap_pte_range_map_size() to batch multiple CONT_PTE Wen Jiang
2026-09-30 15:37 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-10-01 7:55 ` Wen Jiang
2026-10-01 15:56 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 06/10] mm/vmalloc: extract vmap_set_ptes() to consolidate PTE mapping logic Wen Jiang
2026-09-30 14:39 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-10-01 7:58 ` Wen Jiang
2026-10-01 15:54 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 07/10] mm/vmalloc: extend page table walk to support larger page_shift sizes and eliminate page table rewalk Wen Jiang
2026-09-30 15:16 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-10-01 8:02 ` Wen Jiang
2026-10-01 15:52 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 08/10] mm/vmalloc: extract vm_shift() to consolidate mapping shift selection Wen Jiang
2026-09-30 14:46 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 09/10] mm/vmalloc: map contiguous pages in batches for vmap() if possible Wen Jiang
2026-09-30 15:05 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-10-01 8:09 ` Wen Jiang
2026-10-01 15:48 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2026-09-23 6:28 ` [PATCH v9 10/10] mm/vmalloc: align vm_area so vmap() can batch mappings Wen Jiang
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