[PATCH v7 1/3] mm: make persistent huge zero folio read-only

Mike Rapoport rppt at kernel.org
Thu Sep 3 02:20:47 PDT 2026


Hi Dave,

On Wed, Sep 02, 2026 at 01:59:15PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 9/1/26 08:18, Xueyuan Chen wrote:
> > +static inline int set_direct_map_ro(struct page *page, unsigned int nr)
> > +{
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> 
> I still really think the stub here needs to return an error *or* the
> thing needs to just be void and tell folks that they can't know whether
> it worked or not.

All other stubs return 0 here when an arch does not support set_direct_map.
I'm for keeping them all consistent and fixing that technical debt as a
whole rather than creating a one-off here.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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