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[173.79.60.52]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id af79cd13be357-92ee5d34f76sm213283985a.35.2026.07.10.08.09.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:09:02 -0400 From: Gregory Price To: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Pedro Falcato , Andrew Morton , Russell King , Dinh Nguyen , Simon Schuster , "James E . J . Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Jarkko Sakkinen , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, Ian Abbott , H Hartley Sweeten , Lucas Stach , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Patrik Jakobsson , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , Rob Clark , Dmitry Baryshkov , Tomi Valkeinen , Thierry Reding , Mikko Perttunen , Jonathan Hunter , Christian Koenig , Huang Rui , Ankit Agrawal , Alex Williamson , Alexander Viro , Christian Brauner , Dan Williams , Muchun Song , Oscar Salvador , David Hildenbrand , Suren Baghdasaryan , "Liam R . 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That's my secret :] > > > > What's the purpose of retaining tags in a non-address value? > > Well if you want to reconstitute an address from it later then that'd be the > intent, but I'm being hand wavey here for sure. > > Main thing is to retain stuff under the page mask > Right, which ... vvvvvv > > That sounds like there's fragility just waiting to be broken. If that's an actual issue, then our relationship with tags is painful :[ ~Gregory