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charset="us-ascii" On Tue, Jan 06, 2026, Yan Zhao wrote: > From: Rick P Edgecombe > > Disallow page merging (huge page adjustment) for the mirror root by > utilizing disallowed_hugepage_adjust(). Why? What is this actually doing? The below explains "how" but I'm baffled as to the purpose. I'm guessing there are hints in the surrounding patches, but I haven't read them in depth, and shouldn't need to in order to understand the primary reason behind a change.