Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] mm: pagewalk: add the ability to install PTEs

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Mon Oct 14 2024 - 07:14:03 EST


On Fri, Oct 11, 2024 at 08:11:28PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2024 at 2:51 PM Lorenzo Stoakes
> <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Rather than add yet another implementation, we extend the generic pagewalk
> > logic to enable the installation of page table entries by adding a new
> > install_pte() callback in mm_walk_ops. If this is specified, then upon
> > encountering a missing page table entry, we allocate and install a new one
> > and continue the traversal.
> [...]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!