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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:53:03 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT and
 further cleanups
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On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:58:52 +0200 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org> wrote:

> SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT is really only needed during boot, where we
> can instead just rely on SECTION_IS_EARLY_BIT by setting that flag
> earlier.
> 
> Some preparations for doing that conversion and some cleanups in the same
> (sparse) area.

Added to mm-new, thanks.