+ /*
+ * At this point the pmd is numa/protnone (i.e. non present) and the TLB
+ * has already been flushed globally. So no TLB can be currently
+ * caching this non present pmd mapping. There's no need to clear the
+ * pmd before doing set_pmd_at(), nor to flush the TLB after
+ * set_pmd_at(). Clearing the pmd here would introduce a race
+ * condition against MADV_DONTNEED, because MADV_DONTNEED only holds the
+ * mmap_sem for reading. If the pmd is set to NULL at any given time,
+ * MADV_DONTNEED won't wait on the pmd lock and it'll skip clearing this
+ * pmd.
+ */