[PATCH 08/12] mm/khugepaged: Remove redundant pmd_devmap() check

Alistair Popple apopple at nvidia.com
Thu May 29 16:32:09 AEST 2025


The only users of pmd_devmap were device dax and fs dax. The check for
pmd_devmap() in check_pmd_state() is therefore redundant as callers
explicitly check for is_zone_device_page(), so this check can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple at nvidia.com>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index cc945c6..7c2b9bc 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -958,8 +958,6 @@ static inline int check_pmd_state(pmd_t *pmd)
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_trans_huge(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
-	if (pmd_devmap(pmde))
-		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	if (pmd_bad(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	return SCAN_SUCCEED;
-- 
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