On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 10:26:30PM -0500, Zi Yan wrote: > Hi all, > > Based on a recent discussion with David Hildenbrand on page->private > is not zero when a page is freed[1], this patchset is trying to fix all > users do not zero ->private when freeing a page and add checks to make > sure all freed pages have ->private set to zero. For compound pages, > both head page and tail pages need to have ->private set to zero.
Requiring the user to clear a field before freeing is just a way to awkward interface. Don't do that.
