The patch titled Subject: mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: remove redundant list_del() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-redundant-list_del.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-redundant-list_del.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: remove redundant list_del() Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 11:36:41 +0800 The ->lru field will be assigned to a new value in __free_page(). So it is unnecessary to delete it from the @list. Just remove it to simplify the code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027033641.66709-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c~mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-redundant-list_del +++ a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c @@ -231,10 +231,8 @@ static void free_vmemmap_page_list(struc { struct page *page, *next; - list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) { - list_del(&page->lru); + list_for_each_entry_safe(page, next, list, lru) free_vmemmap_page(page); - } } static void vmemmap_remap_pte(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb_vmemmap-remove-redundant-list_del.patch