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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:26:35 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kho: use unsigned long for nr_pages
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:22:14 +0000 Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> wrote:

> With 4k pages, a 32-bit nr_pages can span up to 16 TiB. While it is a
> lot, there exist systems with terabytes of RAM. gup is also moving to
> using long for nr_pages. Use unsigned long and make KHO future-proof.

We can expect people to be using LTS kernel five years from now,
perhaps much longer.  Machines will be bigger then!

IOW, shouldn't we backport this?