[PATCH v8 03/10] mm/vmalloc: use pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge() for PTE-level block mappings

From: Wen Jiang

Date: Thu Sep 17 2026 - 01:31:41 EST


From: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xxxxxxxxxx>

vmap installs PTE-level block mappings by reusing set_huge_pte_at() and
huge_ptep_get_and_clear() under #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. This makes
the feature silently unavailable on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n kernels and
couples mm/vmalloc.c to HugeTLB internals it does not otherwise need.

Now that arm64 and powerpc/8xx provide pte_set_huge() and
pte_clear_huge(), add the generic fallbacks next to the existing
pmd/pud_set_huge() family and convert vmap_pte_range() and
vunmap_pte_range() to the new helpers. The CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE guards
around the block-mapping paths are dropped, so PTE-level block mappings
now also work on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n kernels, and mm/vmalloc.c no
longer includes <linux/hugetlb.h>.

The fallbacks exist only to keep the build working on architectures
without PTE-level block mapping support. They are unreachable there:
the callers only run when arch_vmap_pte_range_map_size() or
arch_vmap_pte_range_unmap_size() return a size other than PAGE_SIZE,
which requires an arch implementation. WARN_ON_ONCE() makes that
explicit rather than silently doing nothing.

Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/vmalloc.c | 19 ++++++-------------
2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index cdd68ed3ae1a9..349ced999f959 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -2134,6 +2134,35 @@ static inline int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP */

+/*
+ * PTE-level block mappings for vmap.
+ *
+ * pte_set_huge() only has to be implemented by architectures whose
+ * arch_vmap_pte_range_map_size() can return a size other than PAGE_SIZE.
+ */
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SET_HUGE
+static inline void pte_set_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
+ phys_addr_t phys, pgprot_t prot,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Likewise, pte_clear_huge() only has to be implemented by architectures
+ * whose arch_vmap_pte_range_unmap_size() can return a size other than
+ * PAGE_SIZE.
+ */
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_HUGE
+static inline pte_t pte_clear_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return __pte(0);
+}
+#endif
+
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_FLUSH_PMD_TLB_RANGE
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
/*
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index bb6ae08d18f58..025b3a848d564 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
#include <linux/rbtree_augmented.h>
#include <linux/overflow.h>
#include <linux/pgtable.h>
-#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/shmparam.h>
@@ -98,7 +97,7 @@ static int vmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pte_t *pte;
u64 pfn;
struct page *page;
- unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE;
+ unsigned long size;

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!PAGE_ALIGNED(end - addr)))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -119,17 +118,12 @@ static int vmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
BUG();
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
size = arch_vmap_pte_range_map_size(addr, end, pfn, max_page_shift);
if (size != PAGE_SIZE) {
- pte_t entry = pfn_pte(pfn, prot);
-
- entry = arch_make_huge_pte(entry, ilog2(size), 0);
- set_huge_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, entry, size);
+ pte_set_huge(pte, addr, PFN_PHYS(pfn), prot, size);
pfn += PFN_DOWN(size);
continue;
}
-#endif
set_pte_at(&init_mm, addr, pte, pfn_pte(pfn, prot));
pfn++;
} while (pte += PFN_DOWN(size), addr += size, addr != end);
@@ -368,25 +362,24 @@ static void vunmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
{
pte_t *pte;
pte_t ptent;
- unsigned long size = PAGE_SIZE;
+ unsigned long size;

pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, addr);
lazy_mmu_mode_enable();

do {
-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
size = arch_vmap_pte_range_unmap_size(addr, pte);
if (size != PAGE_SIZE) {
if (WARN_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(addr, size))) {
addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, size);
pte = PTR_ALIGN_DOWN(pte, sizeof(*pte) * (size >> PAGE_SHIFT));
}
- ptent = huge_ptep_get_and_clear(&init_mm, addr, pte, size);
+ ptent = pte_clear_huge(pte, addr, size);
if (WARN_ON(end - addr < size))
size = end - addr;
- } else
-#endif
+ } else {
ptent = ptep_get_and_clear(&init_mm, addr, pte);
+ }
WARN_ON(!pte_none(ptent) && !pte_present(ptent));
} while (pte += (size >> PAGE_SHIFT), addr += size, addr != end);

--
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