mm-extract-mm_prepare_for_swap_entries-helper.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: extract mm_prepare_for_swap_entries() helper
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-extract-mm_prepare_for_swap_entries-helper.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Usama Arif <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: extract mm_prepare_for_swap_entries() helper
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 04:42:04 -0700

When a swap entry is installed in a page table, the mm must be added to init_mm.mmlist so that swapoff can find and unuse its swap entries. This double-checked locking pattern is currently open-coded in try_to_unmap_one() and copy_nonpresent_pte().

Move it into mm_prepare_for_swap_entries() in mm/internal.h and convert both callers so it can be reused by upcoming PMD-level swap entry code paths that also need to register the mm with swapoff.

copy_nonpresent_pte() previously inserted into &src_mm->mmlist rather than &init_mm.mmlist, but the insertion point is irrelevant, mmlist is a circular list and swapoff walks it entirely from init_mm.mmlist, so only membership matters, not position.

---

 mm/internal.h |   10 ++++++++++
 mm/memory.c   |    9 +--------
 mm/rmap.c     |    7 +------
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

@@ -1955,4 +1955,14 @@ static inline int get_sysctl_max_map_cou
 bool may_expand_vm(struct mm_struct *mm, const vma_flags_t *vma_flags,
 		   unsigned long npages);
 
+static inline void mm_prepare_for_swap_entries(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+	if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist)) {
+		spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
+		if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist))
+			list_add(&mm->mmlist, &init_mm.mmlist);
+		spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
+	}
+}
+
 #endif	/* __MM_INTERNAL_H */

@@ -953,14 +953,7 @@ copy_nonpresent_pte(struct mm_struct *ds
 		if (swap_dup_entry_direct(entry) < 0)
 			return -EIO;
 
-		/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
-		if (unlikely(list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))) {
-			spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
-			if (list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))
-				list_add(&dst_mm->mmlist,
-						&src_mm->mmlist);
-			spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
-		}
+		mm_prepare_for_swap_entries(dst_mm);
 		/* Mark the swap entry as shared. */
 		if (pte_swp_exclusive(orig_pte)) {
 			pte = pte_swp_clear_exclusive(orig_pte);

@@ -2304,12 +2304,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct foli
 				set_pte_at(mm, address, pvmw.pte, pteval);
 				goto walk_abort;
 			}
-			if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist)) {
-				spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
-				if (list_empty(&mm->mmlist))
-					list_add(&mm->mmlist, &init_mm.mmlist);
-				spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
-			}
+			mm_prepare_for_swap_entries(mm);
 			dec_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
 			inc_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
 			swp_pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);

_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-mempolicy-skip-non-present-pmds-when-queueing-folios.patch mm-madvise-skip-device-private-pmds-in-cold-and-pageout-walks.patch mm-huge_memory-skip-device-private-pmds-in-madvise_free_huge_pmd.patch mm-vmstat-mm-memcontrol-add-_monotonic-vmstat-readers.patch mm-vmscan-reduce-lru_lock-contention-via-vmstat-derived-scan-balance-cost.patch