[merged mm-stable] sparc-mm-drop-custom-pte_clear_not_present_full.patch removed from -mm tree
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:15:28 -0700
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The quilt patch titled
Subject: sparc/mm: drop custom pte_clear_not_present_full()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
sparc-mm-drop-custom-pte_clear_not_present_full.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <[email protected]>
Subject: sparc/mm: drop custom pte_clear_not_present_full()
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:49:47 +0200
Patch series "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()", v2.
While doing some review, I stumbled over clear_not_present_full_ptes() and
concluded that it needs some love.
Let's remove pte_clear_not_present_full() and cleanup
clear_not_present_full_ptes(), renaming it to clear_non_present_ptes().
This patch (of 3):
On sparc64, pte_clear_not_present_full() nowadays does a simple
__set_pte_at(). In __set_pte_at() -> maybe_tlb_batch_add(), we check
pte_accessible() to see whether to call tlb_batch_add().
However, non-present PTEs are surely not accessible, so tlb_batch_add() is
never called and the "full" parameter is irrelevant.
Let's drop the helper and just let common code do a pte_clear().
pte_clear() on sparc64 maps to set_pte_at()->set_ptes()->__set_pte_at()
... so it ends up calling the same function, just with "full=0".
Given that "full" is irrelevant, there is no change.
We added pte_clear_not_present_full() for sparc64 in commit 90f08e399d05
("sparc: mmu_gather rework"), and I suspect that it was already not
required back then.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629-clear_not_present_full_ptes-v2-0-96089871a1e7@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629-clear_not_present_full_ptes-v2-1-96089871a1e7@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h~sparc-mm-drop-custom-pte_clear_not_present_full
+++ a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
@@ -945,10 +945,6 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_st
#define pte_clear(mm,addr,ptep) \
set_pte_at((mm), (addr), (ptep), __pte(0UL))
-#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_NOT_PRESENT_FULL
-#define pte_clear_not_present_full(mm,addr,ptep,fullmm) \
- __set_pte_at((mm), (addr), (ptep), __pte(0UL), (fullmm))
-
#ifdef DCACHE_ALIASING_POSSIBLE
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MOVE_PTE
#define move_pte(pte, old_addr, new_addr) \
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
x86-mm-drop-order-parameter-from-free_pagetable.patch
mm-provide-free_reserved_pages-removing-x86-variant.patch
s390-mm-use-free_reserved_pages-in-vmem_free_pages.patch
mm-bootmem_info-allow-calling-free_bootmem_page-on-pages-without-a-bootmem_type.patch
x86-mm-stop-marking-vmemmap-as-section_info.patch
x86-mm-stop-marking-page-tables-as-mix_section_info.patch
x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch
mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-bootmem_info-leftovers.patch
mm-sparse-remove-bootmem_infoh-include.patch
mm-bootmem_info-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch
mm-standardize-printing-for-pgtable-entries.patch