On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:31:57AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote: > Create a new layer for the in-table PTE manipulation APIs. For now, The > existing API is prefixed with double underscore to become the > arch-private API and the public API is just a simple wrapper that calls > the private API. > > The public API implementation will subsequently be used to transparently > manipulate the contiguous bit where appropriate. But since there are > already some contig-aware users (e.g. hugetlb, kernel mapper), we must > first ensure those users use the private API directly so that the future > contig-bit manipulations in the public API do not interfere with those > existing uses. > > The following APIs are treated this way: > > - ptep_get > - set_pte > - set_ptes > - pte_clear > - ptep_get_and_clear > - ptep_test_and_clear_young > - ptep_clear_flush_young > - ptep_set_wrprotect > - ptep_set_access_flags > > Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
