Re: [PATCH 3/4] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: remove vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo()

From: Lance Yang

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 02:16:42 EST



On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 05:08:29PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
>Shared vmemmap tail pages are now mapped read-only during initial
>population, so already optimized HugeTLB bootmem folios no longer need a
>separate write-protection pass.
>
>Remove vmemmap_wrprotect_hvo() and skip these folios during boot-time
>optimization.
>
>Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>---

Yep, already read-only, so there's no need to write-protect them again.

LGTM, so

Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>