[PATCH v8 04/10] arm64/hugetlb: drop the init_mm special case in clear_flush()

From: Wen Jiang

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 01:30:58 EST


From: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xxxxxxxxxx>

clear_flush() calls flush_tlb_kernel_range() when mm is &init_mm. This
was added by commit 06fc959fcff7 ("arm64/mm: Support huge pte-mapped
pages in vmap") because vmap called set_huge_pte_at(&init_mm, ...).

Now that vmap uses pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge(), mm/vmalloc.c is no
longer a caller of set_huge_pte_at() on arm64. The only remaining
callers passing &init_mm are in arch/powerpc, which uses its own
implementation. Remove the dead branch.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 8e799c1fe0aa6..ce247b06fe03d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -206,10 +206,7 @@ static void clear_flush(struct mm_struct *mm,
for (i = 0; i < ncontig; i++, addr += pgsize, ptep++)
__ptep_get_and_clear_anysz(mm, addr, ptep, pgsize);

- if (mm == &init_mm)
- flush_tlb_kernel_range(saddr, addr);
- else
- __flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
+ __flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(&vma, saddr, addr, pgsize, TLBF_NOWALKCACHE);
}

void set_huge_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
--
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