From e544a4e74e02108035de69f97fde7bdf19dba978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:44:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] thp: do not mark zero-page pmd write-protected explicitly

Zero pages can be used only in anonymous mappings, which never have
writable vma->vm_page_prot: see protection_map in mm/mmap.c and __PX1X
definitions.

Let's drop redundant pmd_wrprotect() in set_huge_zero_page().

Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index de984159cf0b..5b2c6875fc38 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -784,7 +784,6 @@ static bool set_huge_zero_page(pgtable_t pgtable, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (!pmd_none(*pmd))
 		return false;
 	entry = mk_pmd(zero_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
-	entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
 	entry = pmd_mkhuge(entry);
 	pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(mm, pmd, pgtable);
 	set_pmd_at(mm, haddr, pmd, entry);
-- 
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