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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:46:52 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
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Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm: hugetlb: Add huge page size param to
 huge_ptep_get_and_clear()

On 17.02.25 15:04, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> In order to fix a bug, arm64 needs to be told the size of the huge page
> for which the huge_pte is being set in huge_ptep_get_and_clear().

s/set/cleared/ ?

> Provide for this by adding an `unsigned long sz` parameter to the
> function. This follows the same pattern as huge_pte_clear() and
> set_huge_pte_at().
> 
> This commit makes the required interface modifications to the core mm as
> well as all arches that implement this function (arm64, loongarch, mips,
> parisc, powerpc, riscv, s390, sparc). The actual arm64 bug will be fixed
> in a separate commit.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit")
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
> ---

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb