On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 02:26:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:22:14 +0000 Pratyush Yadav <[email protected]> wrote: > > > With 4k pages, a 32-bit nr_pages can span up to 16 TiB. While it is a > > lot, there exist systems with terabytes of RAM. gup is also moving to > > using long for nr_pages. Use unsigned long and make KHO future-proof. > > We can expect people to be using LTS kernel five years from now, > perhaps much longer. Machines will be bigger then! > > IOW, shouldn't we backport this?
The latest LTS is 6.12 that still does not have KHO, I don't think it makes sense to backport this to 6.18. -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
