On 24.10.24 09:34, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 04:04:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:24:38 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com wrote:
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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?
I would say probably somewhat difficult as very often people are doing quite custom things, but I will take a look at seeing if we can't make things a little more generic.
I am also mildly motivated to look at trying to find a generic way to do replaces...
Both on the TODO!
I'm not super happy about extending the rusty old pagewalk API, because it's inefficient (indirect calls) and not future proof (batching, large folios).
But I see how we ended up with this patch, and it will be easy to convert to something better once we have it.
We already discussed in the past that we need a better and more efficient way to walk page tables. I have part of that on my TODO list, but I'm getting distracted.
*Inserting* (not walking/modifying existing things as most users to) as done in this patch is slightly different though, likely "on thing that fits all" will not apply to all page table walker user cases.