Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] mm: make persistent huge zero folio read-only

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 05:29:11 EST


Hi Dave,

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 01:59:15PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/1/26 08:18, Xueyuan Chen wrote:
> > +static inline int set_direct_map_ro(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
> > +{
> > + return 0;
> > +}
>
> I still really think the stub here needs to return an error *or* the
> thing needs to just be void and tell folks that they can't know whether
> it worked or not.

All other stubs return 0 here when an arch does not support set_direct_map.
I'm for keeping them all consistent and fixing that technical debt as a
whole rather than creating a one-off here.

--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.