[PATCH 6/6] mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code vmemmap_populate_address()
From: Muchun Song
Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 04:44:43 EST
vmemmap_populate_address() no longer has any callers that need the
returned PTE. Its only remaining user, vmemmap_populate_range(), only
checks whether population succeeded.
Open-code vmemmap_populate_address() directly in
vmemmap_populate_basepages(), remove the now-redundant range helper,
and return -ENOMEM directly on failure.
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 54 ++++++++++++++-------------------------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 8b4904d9c65e..5e0e30c77431 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -303,8 +303,8 @@ static pgd_t * __meminit vmemmap_pgd_populate(unsigned long addr, int node)
return pgd;
}
-static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_populate_address(unsigned long addr, int node,
- struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
p4d_t *p4d;
@@ -312,48 +312,28 @@ static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_populate_address(unsigned long addr, int node,
pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *pte;
- pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(addr, node);
- if (!pgd)
- return NULL;
- p4d = vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd, addr, node);
- if (!p4d)
- return NULL;
- pud = vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d, addr, node);
- if (!pud)
- return NULL;
- pmd = vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud, addr, node);
- if (!pmd)
- return NULL;
- pte = vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd, addr, node, altmap);
- if (!pte)
- return NULL;
- vmemmap_verify(pte, node, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
-
- return pte;
-}
-
-static int __meminit vmemmap_populate_range(unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end, int node,
- struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
-{
- unsigned long addr = start;
- pte_t *pte;
-
- for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
- pte = vmemmap_populate_address(addr, node, altmap);
+ for (unsigned long addr = start; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(addr, node);
+ if (!pgd)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ p4d = vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd, addr, node);
+ if (!p4d)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ pud = vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d, addr, node);
+ if (!pud)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ pmd = vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud, addr, node);
+ if (!pmd)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ pte = vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd, addr, node, altmap);
if (!pte)
return -ENOMEM;
+ vmemmap_verify(pte, node, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
}
return 0;
}
-int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
- int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
-{
- return vmemmap_populate_range(start, end, node, altmap);
-}
-
/*
* Write protect the mirrored tail page structs for HVO. This will be
* called from the hugetlb code when gathering and initializing the
--
2.54.0