[PATCH v7 01/15] arm64: mm: Remove bogus stop condition from map_mem() loop

Ard Biesheuvel ardb+git at google.com
Fri May 29 08:01:52 PDT 2026


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

The memblock API guarantees that start is not greater than or equal to
end, so there is no need to test it. And if it were, it is doubtful that
breaking out of the loop would be a reasonable course of action here
(rather than attempting to map the remaining regions)

So let's drop this check.

Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index dd85e093ffdb..112fa4a3b0eb 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1173,8 +1173,6 @@ static void __init map_mem(pgd_t *pgdp)
 
 	/* map all the memory banks */
 	for_each_mem_range(i, &start, &end) {
-		if (start >= end)
-			break;
 		/*
 		 * The linear map must allow allocation tags reading/writing
 		 * if MTE is present. Otherwise, it has the same attributes as
-- 
2.54.0.823.g6e5bcc1fc9-goog




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