Re: [PATCH v5 09/28] mm: vma_alloc_anon_folio_pmd: pass raw fault address to vma_alloc_folio

From: Michael S. Tsirkin

Date: Sat May 09 2026 - 15:33:08 EST


On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 02:10:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 5/8/26 08:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 09:06:22AM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/05/26 3:52 am, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>> Now that vma_alloc_folio aligns the address internally, drop the
> >>> redundant HPAGE_PMD_MASK alignment at the callsite.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>
> >> Hello Michael,
> >>
> >> Could you please send the whole patchset or at least the cover letter
> >> too, to everyone CCed on at least one patch? I only got two patches
> >> from the patchset in my inbox so I have no context :)
> >
> > Will do, for now I bounced the cover letter to you.
>
> I received all patches, but no cover letter.
>
> I can only suggest to look into using b4 for patch management.

I have some homegrown scripts that I've used for years,
once in a while I decide to make some improvements.
this was one of these times :)


> I'm planning on looking into this, FYI: [1]
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/05cf9584-e06c-4ecb-a5d7-2a558fd756ce@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David