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Anthony Yznaga d0813985a2 sparc64: remove hugetlb_free_pgd_range()
Patch series "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()".

For all architectures that support hugetlb except for sparc,
hugetlb_free_pgd_range() just calls free_pgd_range().  It turns out the
sparc implementation is essentially identical to free_pgd_range() and can
be removed.  Remove it and update free_pgtables() to treat hugetlb VMAs
the same as others.


This patch (of 3):

The sparc implementation of hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is identical to
free_pgd_range() with the exception of checking for and skipping possible
leaf entries at the PUD and PMD levels.

These checks are unnecessary because any huge pages have been freed and
their PTEs cleared by the time page tables needed to map them are freed. 
While some huge page sizes do populate the page table with multiple PTEs,
they are correctly cleared by huge_ptep_get_and_clear().

To verify this, libhugetlbfs tests were run for 64K, 8M, and 256M page
sizes with an instrumented kernel on a qemu guest modified to support the
256M page size.  The same tests were used to verify no regressions after
applying this patch and were also run on x86 for both 2M and 1G page
sizes.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250716012611.10369-1-anthony.yznaga@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250716012611.10369-2-anthony.yznaga@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
History 2025-07-24 19:12:31 -07:00
arch sparc64: remove hugetlb_free_pgd_range() 2025-07-24 19:12:31 -07:00
block bio: use memzero_page() in bio_truncate() 2025-07-09 22:42:08 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: wp512 - Use API partial block handling 2025-06-23 16:56:56 +08:00
Documentation mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface 2025-07-19 18:59:53 -07:00
drivers mm: introduce per-node proactive reclaim interface 2025-07-19 18:59:53 -07:00
fs mm/mremap: use an explicit uffd failure path for mremap 2025-07-24 19:12:29 -07:00
include mm/mremap: use an explicit uffd failure path for mremap 2025-07-24 19:12:29 -07:00
init mm/vmstat: make MEMCG select VM_EVENT_COUNTERS 2025-07-19 18:59:46 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.16-20250630 2025-06-30 16:32:43 -07:00
ipc - The 3 patch series "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to 2025-05-31 19:12:53 -07:00
kernel mm/page_alloc: add support for initializing pageblock as isolated 2025-07-13 16:38:17 -07:00
lib lib/test_vmalloc.c: introduce xfail for failing tests 2025-07-13 16:38:32 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm mm/shmem: writeout free swap if swap_writeout() reactivates 2025-07-24 19:12:31 -07:00
net Including fixes from Bluetooth. 2025-07-03 09:18:55 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.16-rc3 2025-06-18 14:31:16 -07:00
samples mm/damon/vaddr: put pid in cleanup_target() 2025-07-19 18:59:56 -07:00
scripts Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable to pick up changes which 2025-07-12 14:48:26 -07:00
security selinux: change security_compute_sid to return the ssid or tsid on match 2025-06-19 16:13:16 -04:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix built-in mic on ASUS VivoBook X507UAR 2025-06-26 08:02:44 +02:00
tools tools/testing/selftests: extend mremap_test to test multi-VMA mremap 2025-07-24 19:12:31 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'kvm-lockdep-common' into HEAD 2025-05-28 06:29:17 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap 16 hotfixes. 6 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-06-27 20:34:10 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Add entry for Shannon Nelson 2025-06-21 07:34:28 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS tools/mm: add script to display page state for a given PID and VADDR 2025-07-09 22:41:53 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.16-rc5 2025-07-06 14:10:26 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.