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Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/pagewalk: delete the unused member
Date: Mon,  2 Nov 2026 21:28:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261102132844.301730-1-xu.xin@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102132416.300084-1-xu.xin@linux.dev>

From: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>

The 'vma' member of struct folio_walk has never been used since it was
introduced by commit aa39ca6940f1a ("mm/pagewalk: introduce
folio_walk_start() + folio_walk_end()").

The VMA is always passed to folio_walk_start() as a separate argument,
and neither folio_walk_start() nor folio_walk_end() ever reads or writes
fw->vma. I audited all the current users of struct folio_walk (the
callers of folio_walk_start()) and none of them assign to or read the
member, so it is safe to remove.

Signed-off-by: Xu Xin <xu.xin@linux.dev>
---
 include/linux/pagewalk.h | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pagewalk.h b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
index b41d7265c01b..1c397be0d092 100644
--- a/include/linux/pagewalk.h
+++ b/include/linux/pagewalk.h
@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ struct folio_walk {
 		pmd_t pmd;
 	};
 	/* private */
-	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 	spinlock_t *ptl;
 };
 
-- 
2.34.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-02 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-02 13:24 [PATCH v2 0/4] mm/ksm: use per-VMA locking to reduce mmap_lock contention xu.xin
2026-11-02 13:28 ` xu.xin [this message]
2026-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: make folio_walk_start()'s locking asserts scalable xu.xin
2026-11-02 13:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] mm/ksm: make break_ksm() more scalable xu.xin
2026-11-02 13:31 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ksm: add find_mergeable_vma_locked() to use per-VMA locking xu.xin

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