On 26.01.23 01:59, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:

On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 10:43 -0800, Rick Edgecombe wrote:

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Thanks for your comments and ideas here, I'll give the:
pte_t pte_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t pte)
...solution a try.

Well, it turns out there are some pte_mkwrite() callers in other arch's
that operate on kernel memory and don't have a VMA. So it needed a new

Why not pass in NULL as VMA then and document the semantics? The less 
similarly named but slightly different functions, the better :)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb