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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
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	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y v2] Revert "arm64: mm: Don't remap pgtables for allocate vs populate"
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:21:46 -0400
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> This reverts commit 54322d95309d9aa4cb77b34ee4b6c8b541f3e21f.
>
> The 6.6.y backport removes the clearing performed by
> early_pgtable_alloc(). Its replacement clears allocations made by the
> generic page-table walkers, but 6.6's create_idmap() still allocates an
> extra root level directly when a sub-48-bit VA kernel is loaded
> sufficiently high in physical memory.

Queued for 6.6, thanks.

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Thanks,
Sasha