Re: [PATCH] mips: Remove __GFP_HIGHMEM masking

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon Dec 01 2025 - 04:46:44 EST


On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:27:58PM -0800, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> Remove unnecessary __GFP_HIGHMEM masking, which was introduced with
> commit 3e14fb19ad7c ("mips: convert various functions to use ptdescs").
> GFP_KERNEL doesn't contain __GFP_HIGHMEM.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> index 942af87f1cdd..7a04381efa0b 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> @@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
> static inline pud_t *pud_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
> {
> pud_t *pud;
> - struct ptdesc *ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM,
> - PUD_TABLE_ORDER);
> + struct ptdesc *ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, PUD_TABLE_ORDER);
>
> if (!ptdesc)
> return NULL;
> --
> 2.51.1

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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