mm: drop pte_clear_not_present_full()

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In general, there is no good reason to do anything special when clearing
non-present PTEs.

In theory, HW that does have to invalidate TLBs for non-present PTEs could
benefit from a "full" parameter, but fortunately
pte_clear_not_present_full() is not wired up anymore ...  and there would
have to be something very convincing for us to care about that to re-add
it.

So, let's just use pte_clear() directly now.  To prevent the compiler
complaining on some configs about "set but not used" addr parameter,
silence that here.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260629-clear_not_present_full_ptes-v2-2-96089871a1e7@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador (SUSE) <osalvador@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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David Hildenbrand (Arm) 2026-06-29 15:49:48 +02:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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