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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/3/26 13:07, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote: > Would you be ok with taking these patches if I add these relevant apis: > 1) A function that returns and address (like get_zeroed_page()) > 2) A function that frees by address (like free_page()) I don't see any problems taking them if those changes are made. No promises, but I don't see any other issues.