* [merged mm-stable] mm-dont-special-case-mmu-for-is_zero_pfn-and-my_zero_pfn.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-03-24 21:42 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-03-24 21:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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mpe, monstr, mingo, mhocko, mattst88, maddy, lorenzo.stoakes,
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glaubitz, geert, dinguyen, deller, david, davem, dave.hansen,
chleroy, chenhuacai, catalin.marinas, bp, andreas, rppt, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: don't special case !MMU for is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-dont-special-case-mmu-for-is_zero_pfn-and-my_zero_pfn.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: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: mm: don't special case !MMU for is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn()
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:31:38 +0200
Patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page", v3.
These patches cleanup handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn.
This patch (of 4):
nommu architectures have empty_zero_page and define ZERO_PAGE() and
although they don't really use it to populate page tables, there is no
reason to hardwire !MMU implementation of is_zero_pfn() and my_zero_pfn()
to 0.
Drop #ifdef CONFIG_MMU around implementations of is_zero_pfn() and
my_zero_pfn() and remove !MMU version.
While on it, make zero_pfn __ro_after_init.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260211103141.3215197-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 14 +-------------
mm/memory.c | 13 -------------
mm/mm_init.c | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h~mm-dont-special-case-mmu-for-is_zero_pfn-and-my_zero_pfn
+++ a/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -1917,7 +1917,6 @@ static inline void pfnmap_setup_cachemod
pfnmap_setup_cachemode(pfn, PAGE_SIZE, prot);
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
#ifdef __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE
static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
{
@@ -1940,18 +1939,7 @@ static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(
extern unsigned long zero_pfn;
return zero_pfn;
}
-#endif
-#else
-static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-
-static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(unsigned long addr)
-{
- return 0;
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
+#endif /* __HAVE_COLOR_ZERO_PAGE */
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-dont-special-case-mmu-for-is_zero_pfn-and-my_zero_pfn
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -162,21 +162,8 @@ static int __init disable_randmaps(char
}
__setup("norandmaps", disable_randmaps);
-unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_pfn);
-
unsigned long highest_memmap_pfn __read_mostly;
-/*
- * CONFIG_MMU architectures set up ZERO_PAGE in their paging_init()
- */
-static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
-{
- zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(0));
- return 0;
-}
-early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
-
void mm_trace_rss_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, int member)
{
trace_rss_stat(mm, member);
--- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-dont-special-case-mmu-for-is_zero_pfn-and-my_zero_pfn
+++ a/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_map);
void *high_memory;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(high_memory);
+unsigned long zero_pfn __ro_after_init;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(zero_pfn);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
int __meminitdata mminit_loglevel;
@@ -2672,6 +2675,13 @@ static void __init mem_init_print_info(v
);
}
+static int __init init_zero_pfn(void)
+{
+ zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(0));
+ return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
+
void __init __weak arch_mm_preinit(void)
{
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@kernel.org are
userfaultfd-introduce-mfill_copy_folio_locked-helper.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-struct-mfill_state.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-mfill_get_pmd-helper.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-mfill_get_vma-and-mfill_put_vma.patch
userfaultfd-retry-copying-with-locks-dropped-in-mfill_atomic_pte_copy.patch
userfaultfd-move-vma_can_userfault-out-of-line.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-vm_uffd_ops.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-vm_uffd_ops-fix.patch
shmem-userfaultfd-use-a-vma-callback-to-handle-uffdio_continue.patch
userfaultfd-introduce-vm_uffd_ops-alloc_folio.patch
shmem-userfaultfd-implement-shmem-uffd-operations-using-vm_uffd_ops.patch
userfaultfd-mfill_atomic-remove-retry-logic.patch
selftests-mm-pagemap_ioctl-remove-hungarian-notation.patch
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