On Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:10:36 +0800, Muchun Song [off-list ref] wrote:

Bootmem gigantic HugeTLB pages used to be validated again during
gather_bootmem_prealloc_node() and any cross-zone pages were discarded
there.

That validation is no longer needed. Cross-zone bootmem gigantic pages
are now detected during allocation and freed before they reach the later
bootmem gathering path, so the remaining pages are already zone-valid.

[...]

Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.