Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/huge_memory: fix pgtable withdrawal for huge zero PMDs
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Tue Sep 15 2026 - 11:43:13 EST
On 9/15/26 15:52, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 09:43:15PM +0800, Lance Yang wrote:
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>> On 2026/9/15 02:19, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>> Thanks. I'll remove cc:stable, move this into mm-unstable as a
>>> next-merge-window thing.
>>
>> Sounds good to me, thanks, Andrew!
>>
>> Kiryl, David, would you prefer the validation for raw-PFN mappings
>> of the huge zero page as a separate follow-up, or should that
>> validation replace this patch? wdyt
>
> I think this patch can be useful for graceful recovery if we somehow ended up
> with a zero page in a mapping where we shouldn't have one.
>
> A separate patch with validation would be great.
>
Ack
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Cheers,
David