linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: cleanup vma_iter_bulk

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Message-ID: <2be8882d-08eb-4d7d-a846-d29406858bcc@arm.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 15:06:30 +0530
From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@...ontech.com>, Liam.Howlett@...cle.com
Cc: vbabka@...e.cz, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 zhanjun@...ontech.com, niecheng1@...ontech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: cleanup vma_iter_bulk_alloc



On 06/11/25 12:04 PM, Wentao Guan wrote:
> commit d24062914837 ("fork: use __mt_dup() to duplicate maple tree in dup_mmap()"),
> remove the only user and mas_expected_entries has been removed,
> since commit e3852a1213ffc ("maple_tree: Drop bulk insert support").
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@...ontech.com>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>

> ---
>  mm/vma.h | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vma.h b/mm/vma.h
> index 9183fe5490090..4aa72c7e94400 100644
> --- a/mm/vma.h
> +++ b/mm/vma.h
> @@ -498,12 +498,6 @@ static inline unsigned long vma_iter_end(struct vma_iterator *vmi)
>  	return vmi->mas.last + 1;
>  }
>  
> -static inline int vma_iter_bulk_alloc(struct vma_iterator *vmi,
> -				      unsigned long count)
> -{
> -	return mas_expected_entries(&vmi->mas, count);
> -}
> -
>  static inline
>  struct vm_area_struct *vma_iter_prev_range(struct vma_iterator *vmi)
>  {
> 
> base-commit: dc77806cf3b4788d328fddf245e86c5b529f31a2