Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/hugetlb: Remove prepare_hugepage_range()

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Fri Jun 13 2025 - 11:00:58 EST


On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 09:41:08AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> Only mips and loongarch implemented this API, however what it does was
> checking against stack overflow for either len or addr. That's already
> done in arch's arch_get_unmapped_area*() functions, hence not needed.
>
> It means the whole API is pretty much obsolete at least now, remove it
> completely.
>
> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: loongarch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

I think I forgot to clean these up when I unified the unmapped_area for
hugetlb.

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

Thanks Peter!


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Oscar Salvador
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