[to-be-updated] mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc.patch removed from -mm tree

[to-be-updated] mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: remove unused exact_nid parameter from memmap_alloc()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued

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From: Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: mm: remove unused exact_nid parameter from memmap_alloc()
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:51:30 +0800

Commit ffe55393137c ("mm/sparse: remove sparse buffer pre-allocation
mechanism") removed sparse_buffer_init(), which was the only caller of
memmap_alloc() that passed true for exact_nid.

All remaining callers pass false, leaving the exact-node allocation branch
unreachable.  Remove the exact_nid parameter and unconditionally use
memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw().

This has no functional impact.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260914055130.44543-1-kaitao.cheng@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
---

 mm/mm_init.c        |   14 ++++----------
 mm/mm_init.h        |    4 ++--
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |    2 +-
 mm/sparse.c         |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc
+++ a/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(s
 }
 
 void __init *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
-			  phys_addr_t min_addr, int nid, bool exact_nid)
+			  phys_addr_t min_addr, int nid)
 {
 	void *ptr;
 
@@ -1614,14 +1614,8 @@ void __init *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t si
 	 * Kmemleak will explicitly scan mem_map by traversing all valid
 	 * `struct *page`,so memblock does not need to be added to the scan list.
 	 */
-	if (exact_nid)
-		ptr = memblock_alloc_exact_nid_raw(size, align, min_addr,
-						   MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE,
-						   nid);
-	else
-		ptr = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, align, min_addr,
-						 MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE,
-						 nid);
+	ptr = memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw(size, align, min_addr,
+					 MEMBLOCK_ALLOC_NOLEAKTRACE, nid);
 
 	if (ptr && size > 0)
 		page_init_poison(ptr, size);
@@ -1649,7 +1643,7 @@ static void __init alloc_node_mem_map(st
 	end = ALIGN(pgdat_end_pfn(pgdat), MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES);
 	size =  (end - start) * sizeof(struct page);
 	map = memmap_alloc(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, MEMBLOCK_LOW_LIMIT,
-			   pgdat->node_id, false);
+			   pgdat->node_id);
 	if (!map)
 		panic("Failed to allocate %ld bytes for node %d memory map\n",
 		      size, pgdat->node_id);
--- a/mm/mm_init.h~mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc
+++ a/mm/mm_init.h
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ static inline void clear_zone_contiguous
 
 void memblock_free_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned int order);
 
-void *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align, phys_addr_t min_addr,
-		int nid, bool exact_nid);
+void *memmap_alloc(phys_addr_t size, phys_addr_t align,
+		   phys_addr_t min_addr, int nid);
 
 void memmap_init_range(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone,
 		unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long zone_end_pfn,
--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ struct page __init *__populate_section_m
 {
 	const unsigned long size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
 
-	return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), nid, false);
+	return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), nid);
 }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
 
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc
+++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void __ref *vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned
 		}
 		return NULL;
 	} else
-		return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), node, false);
+		return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), node);
 }
 
 static void * __meminit altmap_alloc_block_buf(unsigned long size,
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from chengkaitao@kylinos.cn are

mm-hugetlb-use-hugetlb_vmemmap_optimizable-in-boolean-contexts.patch
mm-page-flags-define-hwpoison-test-and-change-helpers-unconditionally.patch
nvdimm-pmem-remove-test_and_clear_pmem_poison.patch