+ x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: x86/mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node.patch

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

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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: x86/mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:51:06 +0200

CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE now essentially doesn't do anything.

So let's remove support for CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260716-bootmem_info_part2-v2-7-4afc76c73d61@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |   26 --------------------------
 mm/Kconfig            |    1 -
 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c~x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node
+++ a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 #include <linux/nmi.h>
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/kcore.h>
-#include <linux/bootmem_info.h>
 
 #include <asm/processor.h>
 #include <asm/bios_ebda.h>
@@ -1286,16 +1285,6 @@ void __ref arch_remove_memory(u64 start,
 
 static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall;
 
-static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
-{
-#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP)
-	int i;
-
-	for_each_online_node(i)
-		register_page_bootmem_info_node(NODE_DATA(i));
-#endif
-}
-
 /*
  * Pre-allocates page-table pages for the vmalloc area in the kernel page-table.
  * Only the level which needs to be synchronized between all page-tables is
@@ -1358,14 +1347,6 @@ void __init mem_init(void)
 	after_bootmem = 1;
 	x86_init.hyper.init_after_bootmem();
 
-	/*
-	 * Must be done after boot memory is put on freelist, because here we
-	 * might set fields in deferred struct pages that have not yet been
-	 * initialized, and memblock_free_all() initializes all the reserved
-	 * deferred pages for us.
-	 */
-	register_page_bootmem_info();
-
 	/* Register memory areas for /proc/kcore */
 	if (get_gate_vma(&init_mm))
 		kclist_add(&kcore_vsyscall, (void *)VSYSCALL_ADDR, PAGE_SIZE, KCORE_USER);
@@ -1564,13 +1545,6 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned
 	return err;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
-void register_page_bootmem_memmap(unsigned long section_nr,
-				  struct page *start_page, unsigned long nr_pages)
-{
-}
-#endif
-
 void __meminit vmemmap_populate_print_last(void)
 {
 	if (p_start) {
--- a/mm/Kconfig~x86-mm-remove-config_have_bootmem_info_node
+++ a/mm/Kconfig
@@ -590,7 +590,6 @@ endchoice
 
 config MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
 	bool "Allow for memory hot remove"
-	select HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE if X86_64
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	select MIGRATION
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@kernel.org are

sparc-mm-drop-custom-pte_clear_not_present_full.patch
mm-drop-pte_clear_not_present_full.patch
mm-cleanup-clear_not_present_full_ptes-and-rename-to-clear_non_present_ptes.patch
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