[PATCH v2 9/9] mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd() use vm_normal_folio_pmd()

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 09:04:57 EST


Rather than having special handling for the 'special huge' and huge zero
pages, have vm_normal_folio_pmd() figure this out for us, and use the
presence of a folio to determine whether to exit early.

We can therefore delete code, move the 'present or not' logic up and make
things clearer this way.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand (ARM) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 28 +++++++++++++---------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 22715027e56c..5ffe3334c80d 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2431,9 +2431,9 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
{
bool needs_remove_rmap = false;
- struct folio *folio = NULL;
bool needs_deposit = false;
bool is_present = false;
+ struct folio *folio;
spinlock_t *ptl;
pmd_t orig_pmd;

@@ -2453,28 +2453,26 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,

arch_check_zapped_pmd(vma, orig_pmd);
tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
- if (vma_is_special_huge(vma))
- goto out;
- if (is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd)) {
- needs_deposit = !vma_is_dax(vma);
- goto out;
- }

- is_present = pmd_present(orig_pmd);
- if (is_present) {
- folio = pmd_folio(orig_pmd);
- needs_remove_rmap = true;
+ if (pmd_present(orig_pmd)) {
+ folio = vm_normal_folio_pmd(vma, addr, orig_pmd);
+ if (folio) {
+ needs_remove_rmap = true;
+ is_present = true;
+ } else if (is_huge_zero_pmd(orig_pmd)) {
+ needs_deposit = !vma_is_dax(vma);
+ }
} else if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(orig_pmd)) {
- const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
-
- folio = softleaf_to_folio(entry);
+ folio = softleaf_to_folio(softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd));
needs_remove_rmap = folio_is_device_private(folio);
if (!thp_migration_supported())
WARN_ONCE(1, "Non present huge pmd without pmd migration enabled!");
} else {
WARN_ON_ONCE(true);
- goto out;
+ folio = NULL;
}
+ if (!folio)
+ goto out;

if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
needs_deposit = true;
--
2.53.0