Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Tue Jun 02 2026 - 13:09:48 EST


On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:12:17 +0100 Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > This patch is still floating around in mm.git awaiting some
> > finalization. What to do?
>
> >From what I can tell (assuming I've been following along correctly!):
>
> 1. This patch improves the situation, so makes sense in its own right
> 2. There is additional work to be more consistent with the constructors
> for page-table pages, which Kevin is going to look at but is probably
> a little more long-term.
> 3. I'm happy to take this via arm64 but also have no issues with you taking
> it via mm (so please shout if you want me to pick it up).

OK, thanks, no probs, just checking. I'll include this in the next
hotfixes batch for Linus.