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From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>, Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:39:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56df2cf900132ae12e8b71ed95519b5b476e1618.1773865827.git.ljs@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1773865827.git.ljs@kernel.org>

This has been around since the beginnings of the THP implementation. I
think we can safely assume that, if we have a THP folio, it will have a
head page.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 724e1de74367..015f6d679d26 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2469,7 +2469,6 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		folio = page_folio(page);
 		folio_remove_rmap_pmd(folio, page, vma);
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_mapcount(folio) < 0);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
 	} else if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(orig_pmd)) {
 		const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
 
-- 
2.53.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-18 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-18 20:39 [PATCH 0/8] mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd() Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:45   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-19 10:34     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-19 13:03       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-03-19 14:07         ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-19  3:16   ` Qi Zheng
2026-03-19 10:39     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-19  3:26   ` Qi Zheng
2026-03-19  6:38   ` Baolin Wang
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-19  3:29   ` Qi Zheng
2026-03-19  6:41   ` Baolin Wang
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-19  7:00   ` Baolin Wang
2026-03-19 10:58     ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:39 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) [this message]
2026-03-19  7:12   ` [PATCH 6/8] mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() Baolin Wang
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
2026-03-18 20:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap_huge_pmd() further by tracking state Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

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