Re: [PATCH RFC 00/11] mm: distinguish PTE table storage from PTE values

On 7/29/26 14:21, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:

On 29/07/2026 12:52 pm, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

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On 7/29/26 13:33, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:

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Yeah and architecture cannot opt-in until its converted. So we should leave
it to architecture to define hw_pte_t.

In the context of this series, we should have something like an
CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_XXX and select the definition based on that.

So we'd have a generic variant.

I'll add CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_XXX config in generic version.

I don't understand why generic code would define hw_pte_t if arch optionally
opts-in.

Are you saying pte_t may have different definition in different arches. But
the hw_pte_t would always be structure of pte_t. Hence definition

typedef struct { pte_t __pte; }; hw_pte_t;

can be moved to the generic code?

Moving definition to generic side is fine at this point in time. But if
a arch wants to hw_pte_t opaque and don't want the generic code to perform
arithmatic (ptep++), it'll not work.

Yes, but we can tackle this once some arch actually needs that. For now, it
makes this patch set easier to digest.

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Cheers,

David