This has been around since the beginnings of the THP implementation.  I
think we can safely assume that, if we have a THP folio, it will have a
head page.

Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b9d9acfef147..4add863cd18f 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2375,7 +2375,6 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		folio = page_folio(page);
 		folio_remove_rmap_pmd(folio, page, vma);
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_mapcount(folio) < 0);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
 	} else if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(orig_pmd)) {
 		const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
 
-- 
2.53.0

On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)
<ljs@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> This has been around since the beginnings of the THP implementation.  I
> think we can safely assume that, if we have a THP folio, it will have a
> head page.
>
> Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

> ---
>  mm/huge_memory.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index b9d9acfef147..4add863cd18f 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -2375,7 +2375,6 @@ bool zap_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>                 folio = page_folio(page);
>                 folio_remove_rmap_pmd(folio, page, vma);
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(folio_mapcount(folio) < 0);
> -               VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
>         } else if (pmd_is_valid_softleaf(orig_pmd)) {
>                 const softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(orig_pmd);
>
> --
> 2.53.0
>