[PATCH] arm64: mm: call pagetable dtor when freeing hot-removed page tables

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Tue Jun 2 10:06:24 PDT 2026


On Tue, 2 Jun 2026 14:12:17 +0100 Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:

> > This patch is still floating around in mm.git awaiting some
> > finalization.  What to do?
> 
> >From what I can tell (assuming I've been following along correctly!):
> 
> 1. This patch improves the situation, so makes sense in its own right
> 2. There is additional work to be more consistent with the constructors
>    for page-table pages, which Kevin is going to look at but is probably
>    a little more long-term.
> 3. I'm happy to take this via arm64 but also have no issues with you taking
>    it via mm (so please shout if you want me to pick it up).

OK, thanks, no probs, just checking.  I'll include this in the next
hotfixes batch for Linus.




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