[PATCH] ARM: mm: LPAE: Change THP helpers to comply with generic MM semantics

Karl Mehltretter kmehltretter at gmail.com
Fri Sep 18 22:23:44 PDT 2026


On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:59:38 +0200, I wrote:
> pmd_mkinvalid() clears L_PMD_SECT_VALID from a huge PMD. A PROT_NONE
> huge mapping also lacks that bit. On LPAE, pmd_present() therefore
> reports both entries as non-present even though they still describe a
> huge page.

Friendly ping on this patch.

Adding Anshuman Khandual, David Hildenbrand, Ryan Roberts and Andrew Morton
to Cc for review of the THP helper semantics.

Thanks,
Karl



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