linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] Remove device private pages from physical address space

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Message-ID: <75a6bc37-e597-46f0-adf8-c8ec8e5e0e4e@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 14:06:55 +0100
From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@...nel.org>
To: Jordan Niethe <jniethe@...dia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/13] Remove device private pages from physical
 address space

> The last patch contains the bulk of the work where we change how we
> convert between device private pages to device private offsets and then
> use a new interface for allocating device private pages without the need
> for reserving physical address space.
> 
> By removing the device private pages from the physical address space,
> this series also opens up the possibility to moving away from tracking
> device private memory using struct pages in the future. This is
> desirable as on systems with large amounts of memory these device
> private struct pages use a signifiant amount of memory and take a
> significant amount of time to initialize.

I plan to take a look at some things in here soon; still catching up on 
my overflowing inbox.

-- 
Cheers,

David