--- title: Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger... description: The Mesa NVK driver is temporarily disabling larger page support due to a race condition bug in the Nouveau kernel driver. The issue occurs when addresses... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mesa-nvk-driver-temporarily-disabling-support-for-larger-pages-due-to-bug-b852rwgp6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug | daily.dev og:description: The Mesa NVK driver is temporarily disabling larger page support due to a race condition bug in the Nouveau kernel driver. The issue occurs when addresses... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mesa-nvk-driver-temporarily-disabling-support-for-larger-pages-due-to-bug-b852rwgp6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/B852rWGP6.png og:image:alt: Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Mesa NVK driver is temporarily disabling larger page support due to a race condition bug in the Nouveau kernel driver. The issue occurs when addresses transition between 64k and 4k pages, causing valid LPTE entries to be incorrectly reset to SPARSE or INVALID. A kernel patch has been submitted that tracks valid LPTE references with 32-bit counters to prevent the dual-page table handling from trashing valid mappings during the unref process. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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