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authorKiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>2026-02-27 22:42:51 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2026-04-05 23:53:09 +0300
commit32c440d67e6cd96a715007d0e62eb970b0c49abc (patch)
treef55f7130b78413140518fd8f2c6590eecaef9f16 /include/linux/misc
parent622026e87c4019e609010811757e31193cc23847 (diff)
downloadlinux-32c440d67e6cd96a715007d0e62eb970b0c49abc.tar.xz
mm: drop fake head checks
With fake head pages eliminated in the previous commit, remove the supporting infrastructure: - page_fixed_fake_head(): no longer needed to detect fake heads; - page_is_fake_head(): no longer needed; - page_count_writable(): no longer needed for RCU protection; - RCU read_lock in page_ref_add_unless(): no longer needed; This substantially simplifies compound_head() and page_ref_add_unless(), removing both branches and RCU overhead from these hot paths. RCU was required to serialize allocation of hugetlb page against get_page_unless_zero() and prevent writing to read-only fake head. It is redundant without fake heads. See bd225530a4c7 ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: fix race with speculative PFN walkers") for more details. synchronize_rcu() in mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c will be removed by a separate patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260227194302.274384-14-kas@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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