mm/hugetlb: fix two comments related to huge_pmd_unshare()

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Ever since we stopped using the page count to detect shared PMD page
tables, these comments are outdated.

The only reason we have to flush the TLB early is because once we drop the
i_mmap_rwsem, the previously shared page table could get freed (to then
get reallocated and used for other purpose).  So we really have to flush
the TLB before that could happen.

So let's simplify the comments a bit.

The "If we unshared PMDs, the TLB flush was not recorded in mmu_gather."
part introduced as in commit a4a118f2ee ("hugetlbfs: flush TLBs
correctly after huge_pmd_unshare") was confusing: sure it is recorded in
the mmu_gather, otherwise tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly() wouldn't do anything.
So let's drop that comment while at it as well.

We'll centralize these comments in a single helper as we rework the code
next.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251223214037.580860-3-david@kernel.org
Fixes: 59d9094df3 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Tested-by: Laurence Oberman <loberman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Cc: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Uschakow, Stanislav" <suschako@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) 2026-01-26 14:12:21 -05:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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