[PATCH 1/3] sparc/mm: drop custom pte_clear_not_present_full()

From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)

Date: Thu Jun 11 2026 - 07:51:25 EST


On sparc64, pte_clear_not_present_full() nowadays does a simple
__set_pte_at(). In __set_pte_at() -> maybe_tlb_batch_add(), we check
pte_accessible() to see whether to call tlb_batch_add().

However, non-present PTEs are surely not accessible, so tlb_batch_add()
is never called and the "full" parameter is irrelevant.

Let's drop the helper and just let common code do a pte_clear().

pte_clear() on sparc64 maps to set_pte_at()->set_ptes()->__set_pte_at()
... so it ends up calling the same function, just with "full=0".

Given that "full" is irrelevant, there is no change.

We added pte_clear_not_present_full() for sparc64 in commit 90f08e399d05
("sparc: mmu_gather rework"), and I suspect that it was already not
required back then.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
index 74ede706fb32..0837ebbc5dce 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
@@ -945,10 +945,6 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
#define pte_clear(mm,addr,ptep) \
set_pte_at((mm), (addr), (ptep), __pte(0UL))

-#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_NOT_PRESENT_FULL
-#define pte_clear_not_present_full(mm,addr,ptep,fullmm) \
- __set_pte_at((mm), (addr), (ptep), __pte(0UL), (fullmm))
-
#ifdef DCACHE_ALIASING_POSSIBLE
#define __HAVE_ARCH_MOVE_PTE
#define move_pte(pte, old_addr, new_addr) \

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