Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2024-10-23 23:04:07
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:24:38 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes [off-list ref] wrote:
... Existing mechanism for performing a walk which also installs page table entries if necessary are heavily duplicated throughout the kernel,
How complicated is it to migrate those to use this?
... We explicitly do not allow the existing page walk API to expose this feature as it is dangerous and intended for internal mm use only. Therefore we provide a new walk_page_range_mm() function exposed only to mm/internal.h.
Is this decision compatible with the above migrations?