Re: [PATCH 0/3] drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Anthony,

On Tue, 2025-07-15 at 18:26 -0700, Anthony Yznaga wrote:
> For all architectures that support hugetlb except for sparc,
> hugetlb_free_pgd_range() just calls free_pgd_range(). It turns out
> the sparc implementation is essentially identical to free_pgd_range()
> and can be removed. Remove it and update free_pgtables() to treat
> hugetlb VMAs the same as others.
> 
> Anthony Yznaga (3):
>   sparc64: remove hugetlb_free_pgd_range()
>   mm: remove call to hugetlb_free_pgd_range()
>   mm: drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()
> 
>  arch/sparc/include/asm/hugetlb.h |   5 --
>  arch/sparc/mm/hugetlbpage.c      | 119 -------------------------------
>  include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h    |   9 ---
>  include/linux/hugetlb.h          |   7 --
>  mm/memory.c                      |  42 +++++------
>  5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)

I have applied this series against v6.16-rc7 and booted the kernel inside a
SPARC LDOM on Solaris 11.4 without any problems.

Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Adrian

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