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This is >>> the NOMMU code after all, and the less time we spend on it, the better. >>> >>> >>> Depending on your point of view, either everything is mapped on nommu, >>> or nothing is mapped ;-) In any case, the folio is freshly-allocated >>> and locked, so there's no chance anybody has mapped it yet. >>> >>> >>> Well, it is, but it's also exactly what we need to do -- frees folios >>> which are now entirely beyond i_size. And it's code that's also used on >>> MMU systems, and the more code that's shared, the better. >>> >>> >>> Right, we could do that. But that's more code and special code in the >>> nommu codebase. >> >> I guess I'd have to see the frankenstein folio_split() to judge if it is >> really better :) >> >> If it's really just about skipping the unmap+remap the end result would >> indeed be nice. > > Without unmap+remap, that is just __folio_freeze_and_split_unmapped()? ;) I'm rather wondering what else we find when we try actually using it :) -- Cheers, David