From: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
To: david@kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, andreas@gaisler.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, ljs@kernel.org, liam@infradead.org,
vbabka@kernel.org, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
mhocko@suse.com, jannh@google.com, peterz@infradead.org,
osalvador@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: drop pte_clear_not_present_full()
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:38:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260630123804.10313-1-lance.yang@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260629-clear_not_present_full_ptes-v2-2-96089871a1e7@kernel.org>
On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 03:49:48PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
>In general, there is no good reason to do anything special when clearing
>non-present PTEs.
>
>In theory, HW that does have to invalidate TLBs for non-present PTEs could
>benefit from a "full" parameter, but fortunately
>pte_clear_not_present_full() is not wired up anymore ... and there would
>have to be something very convincing for us to care about that to re-add
>it.
>
>So, let's just use pte_clear() directly now. To avoid the compiler
>complaining on some configs about unused "addr" parameter, silence that
>here.
>
>Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org>
>Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
>---
With the sparc64 override gone, pte_clear_not_present_full() is just
pte_clear() :)
LGTM. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-30 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-29 13:49 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-29 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] sparc/mm: drop custom pte_clear_not_present_full() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-30 12:03 ` Lance Yang
2026-06-29 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: drop pte_clear_not_present_full() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-29 17:22 ` Andrew Morton
2026-06-29 17:43 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-29 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2026-06-30 12:38 ` Lance Yang [this message]
2026-06-29 13:49 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes() and rename to clear_non_present_ptes() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-06-30 13:05 ` Lance Yang
2026-06-30 13:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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