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Howlett" , Nico Pache , Ryan Roberts , Dev Jain , Barry Song , Lance Yang , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko , Brendan Jackman , Johannes Weiner , Jason Xing , Yushan Zhou , "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" , Vlastimil Babka , Christoph Lameter , David Rientjes , Roman Gushchin , Harry Yoo , Christian Koenig , Huang Rui , Matthew Auld , Matthew Brost , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Jens Axboe , Christian Brauner , K Prateek Nayak , Davidlohr Bueso , Eric Sandeen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Todd Kjos , Carlos Llamas , Alice Ryhl , Damien Le Moal , Johannes Thumshirn , Dennis Zhou , Tejun Heo , Gao Xiang , Yue Hu , Jeffle Xu , Sandeep Dhavale , Hongbo Li , Chunhai Guo Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/11] Zero page->private when freeing pages Message-ID: References: <20260223032641.1859381-1-ziy@nvidia.com> X-Mailing-List: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , , List-Unsubscribe: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html On Mon, Feb 23, 2026 at 09:00:57AM -0500, Zi Yan wrote: > > awkward interface. Don't do that. > > Page allocator hands the user a zero ->private. I think it is reasonable > to require the user to return a zero ->private. Restoring things back > to their original states is a common standard, isn't it? And most of > users do that. No other relevant interface requires private data pointers, as that would be silly and cause tons of bugs.