* Jeremy Fitzhardinge [off-list ref] wrote:

Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given 
function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm 
structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux 
idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of 
PTEs must be accessed.

nice one! I suspect we could simplify some of the less 
performance-critical open-coded pagetable walker loops in the kernel 
with this? (i'm not even sure it's all that much of a performance loss 
to pass a function pointer around - would be nice to convert say 
mprotect() to this and see the performance difference?)

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <redacted>

	Ingo