Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs

On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 2:51 PM Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com wrote:

Rather than add yet another implementation, we extend the generic pagewalk logic to enable the installation of page table entries by adding a new install_pte() callback in mm_walk_ops. If this is specified, then upon encountering a missing page table entry, we allocate and install a new one and continue the traversal.

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Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com

Reviewed-by: Jann Horn jannh@google.com