[PATCH v8 01/10] arm64/mm: add pte_set_huge() and pte_clear_huge()

Wen Jiang jiangwenxiaomi at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 22:29:24 PDT 2026


From: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6 at xiaomi.com>

vmap installs PTE-level block mappings (PTE_CONT on arm64) by reusing
set_huge_pte_at() and huge_ptep_get_and_clear(), which are HugeTLB
helpers gated by CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. This makes the feature silently
unavailable on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE=n kernels and couples mm/vmalloc.c to
HugeTLB internals it does not otherwise need.

Add pte_set_huge()/pte_clear_huge() to arm64, joining the existing
pmd_set_huge()/pud_set_huge() family in mm/mmu.c. They build on
__set_ptes() and __get_and_clear_full_ptes() directly, so they do not
depend on CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.

There is no caller yet: mm/vmalloc.c is converted later in this series,
once the generic fallbacks are in place.

Signed-off-by: Wen Jiang <jiangwen6 at xiaomi.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  6 ++++++
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c              | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 4dfa42b7d0535..6ee1522fac78f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1949,6 +1949,12 @@ static inline void clear_young_dirty_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_ARM64_CONTPTE */
 
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SET_HUGE
+void pte_set_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, phys_addr_t phys,
+		  pgprot_t prot, unsigned long size);
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_HUGE
+pte_t pte_clear_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLER__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 92fedf4db9278..93b602a6c68a6 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1872,6 +1872,25 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmdp)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+void pte_set_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, phys_addr_t phys,
+		  pgprot_t prot, unsigned long size)
+{
+	unsigned long pfn = __phys_to_pfn(phys);
+	pte_t new_pte = pte_mkcont(pfn_pte(pfn, prot));
+	unsigned int nr = size >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	VM_WARN_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(pfn, CONT_PTES));
+	VM_WARN_ON(!IS_ALIGNED(size, CONT_PTE_SIZE));
+
+	__set_ptes(&init_mm, addr, ptep, new_pte, nr);
+}
+
+pte_t pte_clear_huge(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __get_and_clear_full_ptes(&init_mm, addr, ptep,
+					 size >> PAGE_SHIFT, 0);
+}
+
 static int __pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
 			       bool acquire_mmap_lock)
 {
-- 
2.34.1




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