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[PATCH v8 04/10] arm64/hugetlb: drop the init_mm special case in clear_flush()

From: Wen Jiang <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-17 05:30:23
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

From: Wen Jiang <redacted>

clear_flush() calls flush_tlb_kernel_range() when mm is &init_mm. This
was added by commit 06fc959fcff7 ("arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped
pages in vmap") because vmap called set_huge_pte_at(&init_mm, ...).

Now that vmap uses pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge(), mm/vmalloc.c is no
longer a caller of set_huge_pte_at() on arm64. The only remaining
callers passing &init_mm are in arch/powerpc, which uses its own
implementation. Remove the dead branch.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 8e799c1fe0aa6..ce247b06fe03d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -206,10 +206,7 @@ static void clear_flush(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	for (i = 0; i < ncontig; i++, addr += pgsize, ptep++)
 		__ptep_get_and_clear_anysz(mm, addr, ptep, pgsize);
 
-	if (mm == &init_mm)
-		flush_tlb_kernel_range(saddr, addr);
-	else
-		__flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
+	__flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
 }
 
 void set_huge_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
-- 
2.34.1

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