The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: remove redundant return in set_huge_zero_folio()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-remove-redundant-return-in-set_huge_zero_folio.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: remove redundant return in set_huge_zero_folio()
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:13:15 +0530
It is the responsibility of the caller to check pmd_none(); in any case,
we are not achieving anything by returning since there is no return value
to tell the caller that we succeeded or not. So remove this check.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250306144315.21907-1-dev.jain@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-remove-redundant-return-in-set_huge_zero_folio
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1309,8 +1309,6 @@ static void set_huge_zero_folio(pgtable_
struct folio *zero_folio)
{
pmd_t entry;
- if (!pmd_none(*pmd))
- return;
entry = mk_pmd(&zero_folio->page, vma->vm_page_prot);
entry = pmd_mkhuge(entry);
pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dev.jain@xxxxxxx are
