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Subject: [merged mm-stable] mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc64.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:57:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009055740.E23121F000FF@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for sparc64
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc64.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
------------------------------------------------------
From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for sparc64
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:09:41 +0100
Commit 4a0100f7546f ("sparc64: use RCU page table freeing") enabled
CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for SMP sparc64 architectures, expressly
for GUP-fast page table walkers.
Naturally, UP systems do not have to worry about concurrent GUP fast
operations.
However, CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU is also available even on a UP system, so a
future pure-RCU page table walker requires MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE to be
enabled on UP, even if concurrent GUP fast is not possible there.
To enable future pure-RCU page table walkers, enable
MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE unconditionally.
With this change, it is no longer necessary to have !CONFIG_SMP
pgtable_free_tlb(), so also remove this now dead code.
This forms part of an overall effort to switch every architecture to this
mode.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260925-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v5-6-31e91065fea4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
---
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 4 ++--
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_64.h | 8 --------
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_64.h~mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc64
+++ a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgalloc_64.h
@@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ void pte_free_defer(struct mm_struct *mm
void pgtable_free(void *table, bool is_page);
-#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-
struct mmu_gather;
void tlb_remove_table(struct mmu_gather *, void *);
@@ -96,12 +94,6 @@ static inline void __tlb_remove_table(vo
is_page = true;
pgtable_free(table, is_page);
}
-#else /* CONFIG_SMP */
-static inline void pgtable_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table, bool is_page)
-{
- pgtable_free(table, is_page);
-}
-#endif /* !CONFIG_SMP */
static inline void __pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pte_t *pte,
unsigned long address)
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig~mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sparc64
+++ a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ config SPARC64
select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
select HAVE_KRETPROBES
select HAVE_KPROBES
- select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if SMP
- select HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE if SMP
+ select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+ select HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE
select MMU_GATHER_MERGE_VMAS
select MMU_GATHER_NO_FLUSH_CACHE
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are
mm-vma-fix-mmap_prepare-file-handling-remove-file_doesnt_need_get.patch
mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vma_can_merge.patch
mm-consistently-validate-vma-state-after-mmap-hooks.patch
mm-vma-ensure-mmap_prepare-doesnt-set-actions-on-a-mergeable-vma.patch
mm-make-map_kernel_pages_-internal-and-unexported.patch
mm-vma-tidy-up-map-kernel-pages-enum-values.patch
mm-add-mmap-action-for-discontiguous-kernel-page-mapping.patch
docs-filesystems-update-mmap_prepare-docs-for-discontig-kernel-pgs.patch
drivers-usb-mon-update-to-use-mmap_prepare-map-kernel-pages.patch
infiniband-update-hfi1-to-use-remap_vmalloc_range.patch
selinux-reject-writable-opens-of-policy-file-drop-mmap-shared-write-check.patch
alsa-pcm-use-vm_insert_page-to-map-pcm-status-page.patch
bpf-arena-mark-arena_map_mmap-mappings-vm_mixedmap.patch
mm-vma-add-vma_is_mm_managed-predicates.patch
mm-vma-only-allow-mmap-to-clear-vma_maywrite_bit-if-not-mm-managed.patch
mm-vma-add-and-use-vma__is_fixed_mapping.patch
scsi-sg-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-and-rework.patch
fbdev-defio-assert-fbinfo_virtfb-drop-vm_io-add-vm_mixedmap.patch
hsi-cmt_speech-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-refactor.patch
mm-gup-error-out-early-on-vma_mayread_bit-vmas.patch
uprobes-remove-vm_io-set-vm_mixedmap-for-mapped-kernel-pages.patch
mm-mlock-clear-vma_locked_mask-over-mmap-callback.patch
mm-mlock-eliminate-weird-vma_io_bit-abuse-and-simplify.patch
mm-vma-enforce-that-mm-managed-mappings-may-not-set-vma_io_bit.patch
mm-remove-vma_io_bit-check-in-vma_is_mm_managed.patch
mm-remove-hugetlb_inlineh.patch
mm-rename-is_vm_hugetlb_page-to-vma_is_hugetlb.patch
mm-drop-some-redundant-checks-around-hugetlb-vmas.patch
mm-madvise-update-is_valid_guard_vma-to-use-vma_can_merge.patch
mm-vma-introduce-vma_is_mm_backed.patch
mm-uffd-use-predicates-for-userfaultfd-checks.patch
mm-madvise-use-predicates-for-madvise-madv_dofork.patch
mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch
mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-check-in-lru_gen_look_around.patch
mm-avoid-use-of-vma_special_flags-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch
mm-eliminate-vm_special-vma_special_flags.patch
fuse-dax-do-not-set-vm_mixedmap.patch
mm-huge_memory-remove-vma_is_special_huge.patch
mm-vma-const-ify-vma_assert_stabilised-and-associated-functions.patch
mm-implement-and-use-vma_has_anon_rmap-silence-kcsan.patch
mm-update-comments-to-refer-to-anon-rmap-rather-than-anon_vma.patch
mm-vma-dont-remove-vma-from-rmap-if-pgoff-unchanged.patch
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