Re: [PATCH RFC v2 06/27] mm: page_alloc: Allow an arch to hook early into free_pages_prepare()

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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 06/27] mm: page_alloc: Allow an arch to hook early into free_pages_prepare()
From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:36:52 +0100
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On 19.11.23 17:57, Alexandru Elisei wrote:

Add arch_free_pages_prepare() hook that is called before that page flags
are cleared. This will be used by arm64 when explicit management of tag
storage pages is enabled.

Can you elaborate a bit what exactly will be done by that code with thatinformation?


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb

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