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  2. v2 [diff vs current]
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[PATCH v3 0/8] treewide: remove unnecessary invalid range checks in memblock iteration loops

From: Sang-Heon Jeon <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-30 15:04:38
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml, loongarch

The memblock API guarantees that for_each_mem_range() and
for_each_mem_pfn_range() never return an invalid range, meaning start is
always less than end.

Several memblock callers still have unnecessary invalid range checks in
their loop bodies, so remove them.

Patches 1-6 cover for_each_mem_range() callers. memblock never stores a
zero-size region, so the range it returns always has start < end. Some
callers apply __va() or __phys_to_virt() before comparing, but these keep
start < end too, so the check is unreachable.

Patches 7-8 cover for_each_mem_pfn_range() callers. __next_mem_pfn_range()
skips any region that contains no whole page, so it only ever returns
start_pfn < end_pfn and the check is unnecessary.

For reference, commit 36ca7f4be809 ("arm64: mm: Remove bogus stop
condition from map_mem() loop") did a similar cleanup in arm64 map_mem().

All these checks are in different trees, so I split the change into one
patch per arch/subsystem. The patches are independent and can be applied
separately.

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Changes from v1 [1]
- Add review-by, tested-by tags from v1
- Add missing simliar patches(5,6) to patch series
- Change base to rppt/for-next

Changes from v2 [2]
- Remove unused local variable and braces

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260621145919.1453-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260629163736.1606688-1-ekffu200098@gmail.com/ (local)
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Sang-Heon Jeon (8):
  arm64: mm: remove unreachable invalid range check in
    kasan_init_shadow()
  LoongArch: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init()
  riscv: remove unreachable invalid range check in
    create_linear_mapping_page_table()
  riscv: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init()
  ARM: remove unreachable invalid range check in kasan_init()
  powerpc64/kasan: Remove unreachable invalid range check in
    kasan_init_phys_region()
  mm: remove unnecessary empty range check in
    early_calculate_totalpages()
  mm/hugetlb: remove unnecessary empty range check in
    hugetlb_bootmem_set_nodes()

 arch/arm/mm/kasan_init.c               | 6 ------
 arch/arm64/mm/kasan_init.c             | 3 ---
 arch/loongarch/mm/kasan_init.c         | 3 ---
 arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3e_64.c | 3 ---
 arch/powerpc/mm/kasan/init_book3s_64.c | 3 ---
 arch/riscv/mm/init.c                   | 2 --
 arch/riscv/mm/kasan_init.c             | 3 ---
 mm/hugetlb.c                           | 7 ++-----
 mm/mm_init.c                           | 3 +--
 9 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

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