23 Oct
2024
23 Oct
'24
11:04 p.m.
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?
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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?