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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
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	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
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	Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>,
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	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>,
	Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:04:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241023160405.33995c68f20c141325a8fadb@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9be732fd0e897453116b433fe2f468ef7795602e.1729699916.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:24:38 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> ...
>
> 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?

> ...
>
> 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?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-23 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-23 16:24 [PATCH v3 0/5] implement lightweight guard pages Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 23:04   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2024-10-24  7:34     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-24  7:45       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-24  8:07         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-25 19:08           ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-26  7:42             ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-25 18:13   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-25 21:58     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-28 20:29   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-10-28 21:49     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] mm: add PTE_MARKER_GUARD PTE marker Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-28 20:34   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-10-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] mm: madvise: implement lightweight guard page mechanism Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 23:12   ` Andrew Morton
2024-10-24  7:25     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-26  0:11       ` Andrew Morton
2024-10-26  7:40         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-25 17:12   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-25 21:56     ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-25 22:35       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-28 12:40         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-25 21:44   ` Vlastimil Babka
2024-10-25 21:49     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-28 20:45   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2024-10-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] tools: testing: update tools UAPI header for mman-common.h Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-23 16:24 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] selftests/mm: add self tests for guard page feature Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-10-28 20:32   ` Jarkko Sakkinen

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