The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: remove VM_BUG_ON(!nrg) in get_file_region_entry_from_cache() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-remove-vm_bug_onnrg-in-get_file_region_entry_from_cache.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-remove-vm_bug_onnrg-in-get_file_region_entry_from_cache.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-hugetlb-remove-vm_bug_onnrg-in-get_file_region_entry_from_cache.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb: remove VM_BUG_ON(!nrg) in get_file_region_entry_from_cache() We are sure to get a valid file_region, otherwise the VM_BUG_ON(resv->region_cache_count <= 0) at the very beginning would be triggered. Let's remove the redundant one. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831022351.20916-3-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-remove-vm_bug_onnrg-in-get_file_region_entry_from_cache +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -240,7 +240,6 @@ get_file_region_entry_from_cache(struct resv->region_cache_count--; nrg = list_first_entry(&resv->region_cache, struct file_region, link); - VM_BUG_ON(!nrg); list_del(&nrg->link); nrg->from = from; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-mmap-rename-__vma_unlink_common-to-__vma_unlink.patch mm-mmap-leverage-vma_rb_erase_ignore-to-implement-vma_rb_erase.patch mm-mmap-leave-adjust_next-as-virtual-address-instead-of-page-frame-number.patch mm-hugetlb-not-necessary-to-coalesce-regions-recursively.patch mm-hugetlb-remove-vm_bug_onnrg-in-get_file_region_entry_from_cache.patch mm-hugetlb-use-list_splice-to-merge-two-list-at-once.patch mm-hugetlb-count-file_region-to-be-added-when-regions_needed-=-null.patch mm-hugetlb-a-page-from-buddy-is-not-on-any-list.patch mm-hugetlb-narrow-the-hugetlb_lock-protection-area-during-preparing-huge-page.patch mm-hugetlb-take-the-free-hpage-during-the-iteration-directly.patch mm-page_reporting-drop-stale-list-head-check-in-page_reporting_cycle.patch bitops-simplify-get_count_order_long.patch bitops-use-the-same-mechanism-for-get_count_order.patch