[PATCH] arm64: mm: Drop duplicate check in pmd_trans_huge()

Gavin Shan gshan at redhat.com
Wed May 7 20:51:42 PDT 2025


pmd_val(pmd) is inclusive to pmd_present(pmd) since the PMD entry
value isn't zero when pmd_present() returns true. Just drop the
duplicate check done by pmd_val(pmd).

No functional changes intended.

Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
---
Found this by code inspection
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index d3b538be1500..2599b9b8666f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -739,8 +739,7 @@ static inline int pmd_trans_huge(pmd_t pmd)
 	 * If pmd is present-invalid, pmd_table() won't detect it
 	 * as a table, so force the valid bit for the comparison.
 	 */
-	return pmd_val(pmd) && pmd_present(pmd) &&
-	       !pmd_table(__pmd(pmd_val(pmd) | PTE_VALID));
+	return pmd_present(pmd) && !pmd_table(__pmd(pmd_val(pmd) | PTE_VALID));
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
 
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2.49.0




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