On Fri, 6 Dec 2019 01:04:05 +1100 Daniel Axtens <dja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > apply_to_page_range takes an address range, and if any parts of it > are not covered by the existing page table hierarchy, it allocates > memory to fill them in. > > In some use cases, this is not what we want - we want to be able to > operate exclusively on PTEs that are already in the tables. > > Add apply_to_existing_pages for this. Adjust the walker functions > for apply_to_page_range to take 'create', which switches them between > the old and new modes. Wouldn't apply_to_existing_page_range() be a better name? --- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-add-apply_to_existing_pages-helper-fix-fix +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2621,9 +2621,9 @@ static inline int vm_fault_to_errno(vm_f typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data); extern int apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data); -extern int apply_to_existing_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, - unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, - void *data); +extern int apply_to_existing_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, + unsigned long address, unsigned long size, + pte_fn_t fn, void *data); #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void); --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-add-apply_to_existing_pages-helper-fix-fix +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -2184,12 +2184,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apply_to_page_range); * Unlike apply_to_page_range, this does _not_ fill in page tables * where they are absent. */ -int apply_to_existing_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, - unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data) +int apply_to_existing_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, + unsigned long size, pte_fn_t fn, void *data) { return __apply_to_page_range(mm, addr, size, fn, data, false); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apply_to_existing_pages); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apply_to_existing_page_range); /* * handle_pte_fault chooses page fault handler according to an entry which was _