[merged mm-stable] mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-init_compound_tail.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-init_compound_tail.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code init_compound_tail()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-init_compound_tail.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: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Subject: mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code init_compound_tail()
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:06:19 +0800

init_compound_tail() is only used by vmemmap_shared_tail_page(), where the
shared tail page setup intentionally passes NULL as the compound head.

Keeping this helper in mm/internal.h exposes that special case to the rest
of the MM code and can make the NULL head argument look generally valid. 
Open-code the initialization at the only call site so the special-case use
stays local to sparse vmemmap optimization.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260930140627.57431-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
---

 mm/internal.h       |    9 ---------
 mm/sparse-vmemmap.c |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/internal.h~mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-init_compound_tail
+++ a/mm/internal.h
@@ -786,15 +786,6 @@ static inline void prep_compound_tail(st
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(tail->private);
 }
 
-static inline void init_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
-		const struct page *head, unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
-{
-	atomic_set(&tail->_mapcount, -1);
-	set_page_node(tail, zone_to_nid(zone));
-	set_page_zone(tail, zone_idx(zone));
-	prep_compound_tail(tail, head, order);
-}
-
 #if defined CONFIG_COMPACTION || defined CONFIG_CMA
 
 /*
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-init_compound_tail
+++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -221,7 +221,10 @@ struct page __ref *vmemmap_shared_tail_p
 	for (int i = 0; i < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page); i++) {
 		page = (struct page *)addr + i;
 		mm_zero_struct_page(page);
-		init_compound_tail(page, NULL, order, zone);
+		atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, -1);
+		set_page_node(page, zone_to_nid(zone));
+		set_page_zone(page, zone_idx(zone));
+		prep_compound_tail(page, NULL, order);
 	}
 
 	page = virt_to_page(addr);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from muchun.song@linux.dev are

mm-sparse-vmemmap-drop-vmemmap_populate_dax.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-support-device-dax-in-common-vmemmap-path.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-drop-device-dax-specific-population-path.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-remove-the-unused-ptpfn-argument.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-open-code-vmemmap_populate_address.patch
mm-mm_init-add-zone-mismatch-warning-during-page-init.patch