[TECH TOPIC] Reaching consensus on CONFIG_HIGHMEM phaseout
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at nvidia.com
Wed Sep 17 22:59:51 AEST 2025
On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 11:23:37PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I'm still collecting information about which of the remaining highmem
> users plan to keep updating their kernels and for what reason.
On this topic of removing some parts of highmem, can we say goodbye to
kmap_high_get()? Only ARM uses it and only for
!cache_is_vipt_nonaliasing() systems.
Maybe if so then HASHED_PAGE_VIRTUAL can go too?
Jason
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