Re: [PATCH 06/10] mm/hugetlb: remove redundant huge_pte_alloc() in hugetlb_fault()

[Mike Kravetz]

On 8/7/20 2:12 AM, Wei Yang wrote:
> Before proper processing, huge_pte_alloc() would be called
> un-conditionally. It is not necessary to do this when ptep is NULL.

Worse, that extra call is a bug.  I believe Andrew pulled this patch into
his queue.  It still could use a review.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/e670f327-5cf9-1959-96e4-6dc7cc30d3d5@xxxxxxxxxx/

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Mike Kravetz