[merged mm-stable] mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-pmd_devmap-check.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-pmd_devmap-check.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/khugepaged: remove redundant pmd_devmap() check
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-pmd_devmap-check.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: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Subject: mm/khugepaged: remove redundant pmd_devmap() check
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:58:00 +1000

The pmd_devmap() check in check_pmd_state() is redundant because the only
user of pmd_devmap were device dax and fs dax.  However all callers of
check_pmd_state() first call thp_vma_allowable_order() to check if the vma
should be scanned.  Except when called from a page fault this always
returns 0 for dax vma's, hence we would never expect to see a pmd_devmap
entry.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a68175fd3a37e9b72cc82c1d63fd8b69691a85b5.1750323463.git-series.apopple@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@kernel.org>
Cc: Björn Töpel <bjorn@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Deepak Gupta <debug@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Inki Dae <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: John Groves <john@groves.net>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/khugepaged.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-pmd_devmap-check
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -945,8 +945,6 @@ static inline int check_pmd_state(pmd_t
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
-	if (pmd_devmap(pmde))
-		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_bad(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	return SCAN_SUCCEED;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from apopple@nvidia.com are