[PATCH v3 06/13] mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)

Date: Fri Mar 20 2026 - 14:13:19 EST


This has been around since the beginnings of the THP implementation. I
think we can safely assume that, if we have a THP folio, it will have a
head page.

Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b9d9acfef147..4add863cd18f 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2375,7 +2375,6 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
folio = page_folio(page);
folio_remove_rmap_pmd(folio, page, vma);
WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_mapcount(folio) < 0);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
} else if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(orig_pmd)) {
const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);

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