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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 . Howlett" , Matthew Wilcox , Marek Szyprowski , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim , Masami Hiramatsu , Oleg Nesterov , Steven Rostedt , SeongJae Park , Miaohe Lin , Hugh Dickins , Mike Rapoport , Kees Cook , Paolo Bonzini , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org, etnaviv@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, damon@lists.linux.dev, Rik van Riel , Harry Yoo , Jann Horn Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/30] mm: prefer vma_[start,end]_pgoff() to vma->vm_pgoff in kernel/ Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 03:56:33PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 11:49:18AM -0400, Gregory Price wrote: > > > > Silly question: > > There's no such thing :) > All my questions are silly. 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