Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/vmalloc: stop truncating byte counts derived from nr_pages

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:06:25 +0300 Artem Lytkin <iprintercanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Andrew asked for a v2 of the nr_pages widening, rebased on mm-new, with
> the changelog clarified on what has actually been observed.
> 
> The widening reverts the two casts added by the patches I sent on 25
> July, so it needs those in the tree first, and they are not in mm-new,
> mm-unstable or mm-hotfixes-unstable today. They are here as 1/3 and 2/3 so
> that the series applies and Sashiko can chew on it. 2/3 is byte for byte
> what I sent; 1/3 has one corrected sentence in its changelog and the same
> one-line diff.

Sashiko couldn't apply it for some reason.

This all seems far too complex for such an obscure issue.

How about we queue just a single switch-to-ulong patch, add that to 7.3
and give it a Fixes:0bca23804632/cc:stable so 7.2.x gets fixed later?