Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm/page_alloc: remove set_page_private() in prep_compound_tail()

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 6/29/26 04:56, Zi Yan wrote:
> With the subpage->private == 0 check added in a prior commit, any allocated
> compound page should not have nonzero subpage->private. Remove the
> unnecessary subpage->private initialization code in compound page
> preparation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/internal.h | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
> index 181e79f1d6a2..c96421ce9350 100644
> --- a/mm/internal.h
> +++ b/mm/internal.h
> @@ -895,7 +895,6 @@ static inline void prep_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
>  {
>  	tail->mapping = TAIL_MAPPING;
>  	set_compound_head(tail, head, order);
> -	set_page_private(tail, 0);

Do we want another safety check, maybe another VM_WARN_ON_ONCE?

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Cheers,

David