linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed zero fill in folio_map

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Message-ID: <ZmsSZzIGCfOXPKjj@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:38:15 -0700
From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
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	john.g.garry@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 06/11] filemap: cap PTE range to be created to allowed
 zero fill in folio_map_range()

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 08:27:27AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > The case I tested that failed the test was tmpfs with huge pages (not
> > large folios). So should we then have this:
> 
> No.

OK so this does have a change for tmpfs with huge pages enabled, do we
take the position then this is a fix for that?

  Luis