3.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>

commit 2839bdc1bfc0af76a2f0f11eca011590520a04fa upstream.

This part of gup_fast doesn't seem capable of handling hugetlbfs ptes,
those should be handled by gup_hugepd only, so these checks are
superfluous.

Plus if this wasn't a noop, it would have oopsed because, the insistence
of using the speculative refcounting would trigger a VM_BUG_ON if a tail
page was encountered in the page_cache_get_speculative().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <redacted>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
Cc: Rik van Riel <redacted>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <redacted>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Gibson <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c |   13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c

@@ -16,17 +16,6 @@
 
 #ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
 
-static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
-{
-	/*
-	 * __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run
-	 * from under us.
-	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) < 0);
-	VM_BUG_ON(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0);
-	atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
-}
-
 /*
  * The performance critical leaf functions are made noinline otherwise gcc
  * inlines everything into a single function which results in too much

@@ -58,8 +47,6 @@ static noinline int gup_pte_range(pmd_t
 			put_page(page);
 			return 0;
 		}
-		if (PageTail(page))
-			get_huge_page_tail(page);
 		pages[*nr] = page;
 		(*nr)++;