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Re: [PATCH v3 29/40] mm: drop some redundant checks around hugetlb VMAs

From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-02 06:55:25
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On 9/17/26 18:22, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
Adjust code which inadvertently perform redundant checks on hugetlb VMAs
and clean them up:

* hugetlb VMAs have VMA_DONTEXPAND_BIT set so a VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS check
  suffices. (migrate_vma_setup() regains an explicit hugetlb test later in
  the series, once VMA_SPECIAL_FLAGS is removed.)

* hugetlb VMAs unconditionally set vma->vm_ops, so they are never
  anonymous.

* hugetlb VMAs do not set VMA_PFNMAP_BIT so checking for this is redundant.

While we're here also drop a VM_BUG_ON() which the simplified check above
makes unreachable, and use the new VMA flag API.

No functional change intended.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers,

David
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