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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] mm: use nth_page() in place of direct struct page manipulation.
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> On Aug 31, 2023, at 02:27, Zi Yan <zi.yan@sent.com> wrote:
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> From: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
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> When dealing with hugetlb pages, manipulating struct page pointers
> directly can get to wrong struct page, since struct page is not guaranteed
> to be contiguous on SPARSEMEM without VMEMMAP. Use nth_page() to handle
> it properly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

Maybe 3 separate patches would be better for backporting purpose.

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