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Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Suren Baghdasaryan , Ira Weiny , Nishanth Menon , =?UTF-8?Q?Heiko_St=C3=BCbner?= , Alexander Sverdlin , "Chester A. Unal" , Sergio Paracuellos , Andreas Larsson Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 3:46=E2=80=AFAM Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I don't mind that the feature remains ... unless it causes us trouble. > Which it currently does. Perhaps we could start by removing HIGHPTE? > There was a certain amount of complexity introduced into the page fault > path when support for that was introduced. x86 removed support for it, > so it's just ARM left before we can remove the complexity again. I sent an RFC patch so we can see what Russell has to say about this, it is currently only enabled by default on the VT8500 machine. Yours, Linus Walleij