+ mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/rmap: not necessary to mask off FOLIO_PAGES_MAPPED
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Subject: mm/rmap: not necessary to mask off FOLIO_PAGES_MAPPED
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:26:46 +0000

At this point, we are in an if branch conditional on (nr <
ENTIRELY_MAPPED), and FOLIO_PAGES_MAPPED is equal to (ENTIRELY_MAPPED -
1).  This means the upper bits are already cleared.

It is not necessary to mask it off.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250817032647.29147-2-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/rmap.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/rmap.c~mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped
+++ a/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ static __always_inline void __folio_remo
 				nr_pages = folio_large_nr_pages(folio);
 				if (level == PGTABLE_LEVEL_PMD)
 					nr_pmdmapped = nr_pages;
-				nr = nr_pages - (nr & FOLIO_PAGES_MAPPED);
+				nr = nr_pages - nr;
 				/* Raced ahead of another remove and an add? */
 				if (unlikely(nr < 0))
 					nr = 0;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@gmail.com are

mm-rmap-do-__folio_mod_stat-in-__folio_add_rmap.patch
selftests-mm-do-check_huge_anon-with-a-number-been-passed-in.patch
mm-rmap-not-necessary-to-mask-off-folio_pages_mapped.patch