[merged mm-stable] mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/sparse: remove flags parameter from sparse_init_one_section()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section.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: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: mm/sparse: remove flags parameter from sparse_init_one_section()
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:59:03 +0200

The last user of the flags parameter that used to pass SECTION_IS_EARLY
was removed, so let's remove the parameter.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-11-54d81d65e125@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---

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

--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static void __init sparse_metadata_init_
 			      section_nr);
 		memmap_boot_pages_add(section_nr_vmemmap_pages(pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION));
 		sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(section_nr), section_nr,
-					mem_map, usage, 0);
+					mem_map, usage);
 		usage = (void *)usage + mem_section_usage_size();
 	}
 }
--- a/mm/sparse.h~mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section
+++ a/mm/sparse.h
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ int sparse_index_init(unsigned long sect
 
 static inline void sparse_init_one_section(struct mem_section *ms,
 		unsigned long section_nr, struct page *mem_map,
-		struct mem_section_usage *usage, unsigned long flags)
+		struct mem_section_usage *usage)
 {
 	unsigned long coded_mem_map;
 
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ static inline void sparse_init_one_secti
 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(coded_mem_map & ~SECTION_MAP_MASK);
 
 	ms->section_mem_map &= ~SECTION_MAP_MASK;
-	ms->section_mem_map |= coded_mem_map;
-	ms->section_mem_map |= flags | SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP;
+	ms->section_mem_map |= coded_mem_map | SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP;
 	ms->usage = usage;
 }
 
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c~mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section
+++ a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -908,7 +908,7 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid
 	/* Align memmap to section boundary in the subsection case */
 	if (section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr) != start_pfn)
 		memmap = pfn_to_page(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr));
-	sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, ms->usage, 0);
+	sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, ms->usage);
 
 	return 0;
 }
_

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

mm-fix-address-wraparound-when-scanning-large-folio-ptes.patch
mm-hugetlb-disable-pmd-sharing-for-uffd-missing-mode.patch
mm-vma-write-lock-source-vma-before-duplicating-it-in-__split_vma.patch
mm-madvise-preserve-vma_softdirty_bit-when-changing-anonymous-names.patch