[PATCH v2 48/69] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Inline vmemmap_populate_address() into its caller

From: Muchun Song

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 09:47:26 EST


vmemmap_populate_address() no longer has any callers that need the
returned PTE. Its only remaining user just checks whether the call
succeeded.

Inline it back into vmemmap_populate_basepages() and return -ENOMEM
directly on failure.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
index 9811c92ad258..5d5cd5f73365 100644
--- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ static pgd_t * __meminit vmemmap_pgd_populate(unsigned long addr, int node)
return pgd;
}

-static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_populate_address(unsigned long addr, int node,
- struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
p4d_t *p4d;
@@ -243,32 +243,24 @@ static pte_t * __meminit vmemmap_populate_address(unsigned long addr, int node,
pmd_t *pmd;
pte_t *pte;

- pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(addr, node);
- if (!pgd)
- return NULL;
- p4d = vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd, addr, node);
- if (!p4d)
- return NULL;
- pud = vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d, addr, node);
- if (!pud)
- return NULL;
- pmd = vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud, addr, node);
- if (!pmd)
- return NULL;
- pte = vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd, addr, node, altmap);
- if (!pte)
- return NULL;
- vmemmap_verify(pte, node, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
-
- return pte;
-}
-
-int __meminit vmemmap_populate_basepages(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
- int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
-{
- for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE)
- if (!vmemmap_populate_address(start, node, altmap))
+ for (; start < end; start += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(start, node);
+ if (!pgd)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ p4d = vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd, start, node);
+ if (!p4d)
return -ENOMEM;
+ pud = vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d, start, node);
+ if (!pud)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ pmd = vmemmap_pmd_populate(pud, start, node);
+ if (!pmd)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ pte = vmemmap_pte_populate(pmd, start, node, altmap);
+ if (!pte)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ vmemmap_verify(pte, node, start, start + PAGE_SIZE);
+ }

return 0;
}
--
2.54.0