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Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 11:04:04AM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: >> On 4/13/26 22:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> >>> I admit I only vaguely understand the core mm refactoring you are suggesting. >>> >> >> Oh, I was hoping claude would figure that out for you. > > We figured it out together) :) [...] > > > Pretty much what I did, except I felt it is better to change the > existing APIs. A bit more churn, but in return there's less of a chance > we forget to pass the user address. > > Because, if we do, the result works fine on x86 but corrupts memory > on other arches. Converting everything is probably cleaner long term, But there are many instances where we just don't really have an address, or the address is irrelevant, because we wouldn't care about the difference when zeroing. vma_alloc_folio() is the API to use when we have a VMA + address. But yeah, something that is harder to mess up would be nice. -- Cheers, David