Thread (78 messages) 78 messages, 11 authors, 2025-07-02

[PATCH 2/5] mm/hugetlb: Remove prepare_hugepage_range()

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Date: 2025-06-13 13:41:22
Also in: linux-mips, linux-mm, lkml, loongarch
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), generic include/asm header files, hugetlb subsystem, loongarch, mips, the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Arnd Bergmann, Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador, Huacai Chen, Thomas Bogendoerfer, Linus Torvalds

Only mips and loongarch implemented this API, however what it does was
checking against stack overflow for either len or addr.  That's already
done in arch's arch_get_unmapped_area*() functions, hence not needed.

It means the whole API is pretty much obsolete at least now, remove it
completely.

Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: loongarch@lists.linux.dev
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
 arch/loongarch/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 14 --------------
 arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h      | 14 --------------
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c                 |  8 ++------
 include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h        |  8 --------
 include/linux/hugetlb.h              |  6 ------
 5 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 4dc4b3e04225..ab68b594f889 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/loongarch/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -10,20 +10,6 @@
 
 uint64_t pmd_to_entrylo(unsigned long pmd_val);
 
-#define __HAVE_ARCH_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE
-static inline int prepare_hugepage_range(struct file *file,
-					 unsigned long addr,
-					 unsigned long len)
-{
-	unsigned long task_size = STACK_TOP;
-
-	if (len > task_size)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (task_size - len < addr)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return 0;
-}
-
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTE_CLEAR
 static inline void huge_pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 				  pte_t *ptep, unsigned long sz)
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index fbc71ddcf0f6..8c460ce01ffe 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -11,20 +11,6 @@
 
 #include <asm/page.h>
 
-#define __HAVE_ARCH_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE
-static inline int prepare_hugepage_range(struct file *file,
-					 unsigned long addr,
-					 unsigned long len)
-{
-	unsigned long task_size = STACK_TOP;
-
-	if (len > task_size)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	if (task_size - len < addr)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	return 0;
-}
-
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_GET_AND_CLEAR
 static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 					    unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
diff --git a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
index fc03dd541b4d..32dff13463d2 100644
--- a/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c
@@ -179,12 +179,8 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
 
 	if (len & ~huge_page_mask(h))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (flags & MAP_FIXED) {
-		if (addr & ~huge_page_mask(h))
-			return -EINVAL;
-		if (prepare_hugepage_range(file, addr, len))
-			return -EINVAL;
-	}
+	if ((flags & MAP_FIXED) && (addr & ~huge_page_mask(h)))
+		return -EINVAL;
 	if (addr)
 		addr0 = ALIGN(addr, huge_page_size(h));
 
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h b/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
index 3e0a8fe9b108..4bce4f07f44f 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/hugetlb.h
@@ -114,14 +114,6 @@ static inline int huge_pte_none_mostly(pte_t pte)
 }
 #endif
 
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE
-static inline int prepare_hugepage_range(struct file *file,
-		unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_SET_WRPROTECT
 static inline void huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 42f374e828a2..85acdfdbe9f0 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -359,12 +359,6 @@ static inline void hugetlb_show_meminfo_node(int nid)
 {
 }
 
-static inline int prepare_hugepage_range(struct file *file,
-				unsigned long addr, unsigned long len)
-{
-	return -EINVAL;
-}
-
 static inline void hugetlb_vma_lock_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 }
-- 
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