+ mmhugetlb-drop-obsolete-comment-about-non-present-pte-and-second-faults.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm,hugetlb: drop obsolete comment about non-present pte and second faults
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mmhugetlb-drop-obsolete-comment-about-non-present-pte-and-second-faults.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mmhugetlb-drop-obsolete-comment-about-non-present-pte-and-second-faults.patch

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

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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: mm,hugetlb: drop obsolete comment about non-present pte and second faults
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:29:03 +0200

There is a comment in hugetlb_fault() that does not hold anymore.  This
one:

 /*
  * vmf.orig_pte could be a migration/hwpoison vmf.orig_pte at this
  * point, so this check prevents the kernel from going below assuming
  * that we have an active hugepage in pagecache. This goto expects
  * the 2nd page fault, and is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned)
  * check will properly handle it.
  */

This was written because back in the day we used to do:

 hugetlb_fault () {
  ptep = huge_pte_offset(...)
  if (ptep) {
    entry = huge_ptep_get(ptep)
    if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(entry))
        ...
    else if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(entry)))
        ...
  }

  ...
  ...

  /*
   * entry could be a migration/hwpoison entry at this point, so this
   * check prevents the kernel from going below assuming that we have
   * a active hugepage in pagecache. This goto expects the 2nd page fault,
   * and is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned) check will properly
   * handle it.
   */
  if (!pte_present(entry))
          goto out_mutex;
  ...
 }

The code was designed to check for hwpoisoned/migration entries upfront,
and then bail out if further down the pte was not present anymore, relying
on the second fault to properly handle migration/hwpoison entries that
time around.

The way we handle this is different nowadays, so drop the misleading
comment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250627102904.107202-5-osalvador@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Gavin Guo <gavinguo@igalia.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |    8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mmhugetlb-drop-obsolete-comment-about-non-present-pte-and-second-faults
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6744,13 +6744,7 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struc
 
 	ret = 0;
 
-	/*
-	 * vmf.orig_pte could be a migration/hwpoison vmf.orig_pte at this
-	 * point, so this check prevents the kernel from going below assuming
-	 * that we have an active hugepage in pagecache. This goto expects
-	 * the 2nd page fault, and is_hugetlb_entry_(migration|hwpoisoned)
-	 * check will properly handle it.
-	 */
+	/* Not present, either a migration or a hwpoisoned entry */
 	if (!pte_present(vmf.orig_pte)) {
 		if (unlikely(is_hugetlb_entry_migration(vmf.orig_pte))) {
 			/*
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from osalvador@suse.de are

mmslub-do-not-special-case-n_normal-nodes-for-slab_nodes.patch
mmmemory_hotplug-remove-status_change_nid_normal-and-update-documentation.patch
mmmemory_hotplug-implement-numa-node-notifier.patch
mmslub-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
mmmemory-tiers-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
driverscxl-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
drivershmat-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
kernelcpuset-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
mmmempolicy-use-node-notifier-instead-of-memory-notifier.patch
mmpage_ext-derive-the-node-from-the-pfn.patch
mmmemory_hotplug-drop-status_change_nid-parameter-from-memory_notify.patch
mmhugetlb-change-mechanism-to-detect-a-cow-on-private-mapping.patch
mmhugetlb-sort-out-folio-locking-in-the-faulting-path.patch
mmhugetlb-rename-anon_rmap-to-new_anon_folio-and-make-it-boolean.patch
mmhugetlb-drop-obsolete-comment-about-non-present-pte-and-second-faults.patch
mmhugetlb-drop-unlikelys-from-hugetlb_fault.patch