Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs

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




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