Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 2 authors, 2025-06-19

Re: [PATCH v2 11/14] mm: Remove devmap related functions and page table bits

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2025-06-17 09:36:54
Also in: dri-devel, linux-arm-kernel, linux-cxl, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-riscv, linux-xfs, lkml, loongarch, nvdimm

On 16.06.25 13:58, Alistair Popple wrote:
Now that DAX and all other reference counts to ZONE_DEVICE pages are
managed normally there is no need for the special devmap PTE/PMD/PUD
page table bits. So drop all references to these, freeing up a
software defined page table bit on architectures supporting it.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> # arm64
Suggested-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb

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