[PATCH v4 03/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code init_compound_tail()

From: Muchun Song

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 02:44:49 EST


init_compound_tail() is only used by vmemmap_shared_tail_page(), where
the shared tail page setup intentionally passes NULL as the compound head.

Keeping this helper in mm/internal.h exposes that special case to the rest
of the MM code and can make the NULL head argument look generally valid.
Open-code the initialization at the only call site so the special-case use
stays local to sparse vmemmap optimization.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
- Collect Acked-by from Mike Rapoport

v3:
- Collect Acked-by from David Hildenbrand

v2:
- Collect Acked-by from Qi Zheng
---
mm/internal.h | 9 ---------
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index da14c56fb24e..0dca33db068f 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -786,15 +786,6 @@ static inline void prep_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(tail->private);
}

-static inline void init_compound_tail(struct page *tail,
- const struct page *head, unsigned int order, struct zone *zone)
-{
- atomic_set(&tail->_mapcount, -1);
- set_page_node(tail, zone_to_nid(zone));
- set_page_zone(tail, zone_idx(zone));
- prep_compound_tail(tail, head, order);
-}
-
#if defined CONFIG_COMPACTION || defined CONFIG_CMA

/*
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 7388a5b5cce3..861e09b2b096 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -189,7 +189,10 @@ struct page __ref *vmemmap_shared_tail_page(unsigned int order, struct zone *zon
for (int i = 0; i < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page); i++) {
page = (struct page *)addr + i;
mm_zero_struct_page(page);
- init_compound_tail(page, NULL, order, zone);
+ atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, -1);
+ set_page_node(page, zone_to_nid(zone));
+ set_page_zone(page, zone_idx(zone));
+ prep_compound_tail(page, NULL, order);
}

page = virt_to_page(addr);
--
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