Can the huge zero page be partially mapped?

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I looked at the definition of is_huge_zero_page():

static inline bool is_huge_zero_page(struct page *page)
{
        return READ_ONCE(huge_zero_page) == page;
}

That made me raise my eyebrows a bit because it will return false for
tail pages of the HZP (that was at least unexpected for me).  Then we
have this beauty:

void free_page_and_swap_cache(struct page *page)
{
        struct folio *folio = page_folio(page);

        free_swap_cache(folio);
        if (!is_huge_zero_page(page))
                folio_put(folio);
}

So if we can call free_page_and_swap_cache() with a tail of the HZP
we can absolutely screw up its refcounting.  Now, we have VM_BUGs
to catch the refcount going below 0, and I haven't seen them being
hit, so I _presume_ it doesn't happen, but maybe somebody inventive
could come up with a way of putting a HZP tail into a page table ...?




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