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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 12:20:26 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Vivian Wang <wangruikang@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y 0/2] riscv: mm: Backport of mmap hint address fixes
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 03:50:15PM +0800, Vivian Wang wrote:
> Backport of the two riscv mmap patches from master. In effect, these two
> patches removes arch_get_mmap_{base,end} for riscv.

Why is this needed?  What bug does this fix?

thanks,

greg k-h