The patch titled Subject: mm,page_alloc: drop unnecessary checks from pfn_range_valid_contig has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mmpage_alloc-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-pfn_range_valid_contig.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mmpage_alloc-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-pfn_range_valid_contig.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mmpage_alloc-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-pfn_range_valid_contig.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: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm,page_alloc: drop unnecessary checks from pfn_range_valid_contig pfn_range_valid_contig() bails out when it finds an in-use page or a hugetlb page, among other things. We can drop the in-use page check since __alloc_contig_pages can migrate away those pages, and the hugetlb page check can go too since isolate_migratepages_range is now capable of dealing with hugetlb pages. Either way, those checks are racy so let the end function handle it when the time comes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210419075413.1064-8-osalvador@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mmpage_alloc-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-pfn_range_valid_contig +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -8898,12 +8898,6 @@ static bool pfn_range_valid_contig(struc if (PageReserved(page)) return false; - - if (page_count(page) > 0) - return false; - - if (PageHuge(page)) - return false; } return true; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from osalvador@xxxxxxx are x86-vmemmap-drop-handling-of-4k-unaligned-vmemmap-range.patch x86-vmemmap-drop-handling-of-1gb-vmemmap-ranges.patch x86-vmemmap-handle-unpopulated-sub-pmd-ranges.patch x86-vmemmap-handle-unpopulated-sub-pmd-ranges-fix.patch x86-vmemmap-optimize-for-consecutive-sections-in-partial-populated-pmds.patch mmpage_alloc-bail-out-earlier-on-enomem-in-alloc_contig_migrate_range.patch mmcompaction-let-isolate_migratepages_rangeblock-return-error-codes.patch mmhugetlb-drop-clearing-of-flag-from-prep_new_huge_page.patch mmhugetlb-split-prep_new_huge_page-functionality.patch mm-make-alloc_contig_range-handle-free-hugetlb-pages.patch mm-make-alloc_contig_range-handle-in-use-hugetlb-pages.patch mmpage_alloc-drop-unnecessary-checks-from-pfn_range_valid_contig.patch drivers-base-memory-introduce-memory_block_onlineoffline.patch mmmemory_hotplug-relax-fully-spanned-sections-check.patch mmmemory_hotplug-allocate-memmap-from-the-added-memory-range.patch acpimemhotplug-enable-mhp_memmap_on_memory-when-supported.patch mmmemory_hotplug-add-kernel-boot-option-to-enable-memmap_on_memory.patch x86-kconfig-introduce-arch_mhp_memmap_on_memory_enable.patch arm64-kconfig-introduce-arch_mhp_memmap_on_memory_enable.patch