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We can now safely iterate over all pages in a folio, so no need for the pfn_to_page(). Also, as we already force the refcount in __init_single_page() to 1 through init_page_count(), we can just set the refcount to 0 and avoid page_ref_freeze() + VM_BUG_ON. Likely, in the future, we would just want to tell __init_single_page() to which value to initialize the refcount. Further, adjust the comments to highlight that we are dealing with an open-coded prep_compound_page() variant, and add another comment explaining why we really need the __init_single_page() only on the tail pages. Note that the current code was likely problematic, but we never ran into it: prep_compound_tail() would have been called with an offset that might exceed a memory section, and prep_compound_tail() would have simply added that offset to the page pointer -- which would not have done the right thing on sparsemem without vmemmap. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-14-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.