The patch titled Subject: mm/memory-failure.c: remove unnecessary PageTransTail check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check.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: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory-failure.c: remove unnecessary PageTransTail check When we reach here, we're guaranteed to have non-compound page as thp is already splited. Remove this unnecessary PageTransTail check. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220218090118.1105-9-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory-failure.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memory-failure.c~mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check +++ a/mm/memory-failure.c @@ -1844,7 +1844,7 @@ try_again: * page_lock. We need wait writeback completion for this page or it * may trigger vfs BUG while evict inode. */ - if (!PageTransTail(p) && !PageLRU(p) && !PageWriteback(p)) + if (!PageLRU(p) && !PageWriteback(p)) goto identify_page_state; /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-memremap-avoid-calling-kasan_remove_zero_shadow-for-device-private-memory.patch filemap-remove-find_get_pages.patch mm-use-helper-function-range_in_vma.patch mm-sparse-make-mminit_validate_memmodel_limits-static.patch mm-vmalloc-remove-unneeded-function-forward-declaration.patch mm-mmzoneh-remove-unused-macros.patch mm-memory-failurec-minor-clean-up-for-memory_failure_dev_pagemap.patch mm-memory-failurec-catch-unexpected-efault-from-vma_address.patch mm-memory-failurec-rework-the-signaling-logic-in-kill_proc.patch mm-memory-failurec-fix-race-with-changing-page-more-robustly.patch mm-memory-failurec-remove-pageslab-check-in-hwpoison_filter_dev.patch mm-memory-failurec-rework-the-try_to_unmap-logic-in-hwpoison_user_mappings.patch mm-memory-failurec-remove-obsolete-comment-in-__soft_offline_page.patch mm-memory-failurec-remove-unnecessary-pagetranstail-check.patch mm-hwpoison-inject-support-injecting-hwpoison-to-free-page.patch mm-ksm-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch mm-balloon_compaction-make-balloon-page-compaction-callbacks-static.patch mm-memory_hotplug-remove-obsolete-comment-of-__add_pages.patch mm-memory_hotplug-avoid-calling-zone_intersects-for-zone_normal.patch mm-memory_hotplug-clean-up-try_offline_node.patch mm-memory_hotplug-fix-misplaced-comment-in-offline_pages.patch mm-highmem-remove-unnecessary-done-label.patch mm-hmmc-remove-unneeded-local-variable-ret.patch