[RFC 2/8] mm/hugetlb: remove useless set_page_count()

From: Pasha Tatashin
Date: Tue Oct 26 2021 - 13:38:37 EST


prep_compound_gigantic_page() calls set_page_count(0, p), but it is not
needed because page_ref_freeze(p, 1) already sets refcount to 0.

Using, set_page_count() is dangerous, because it unconditionally resets
refcount from the current value to unrestrained value, and therefore
should be minimized.

Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 95dc7b83381f..7e3996c8b696 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1707,7 +1707,7 @@ static bool prep_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
pr_warn("HugeTLB page can not be used due to unexpected inflated ref count\n");
goto out_error;
}
- set_page_count(p, 0);
+ VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(p), p);
set_compound_head(p, page);
}
atomic_set(compound_mapcount_ptr(page), -1);
--
2.33.0.1079.g6e70778dc9-goog