Re: [PATCH 05/21] x86/mm/pat: mirror direct map changes to ASI

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 11:49:13AM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Well, something has to manage those pagetables and that thing needs a
> term to describe the stuff it's acting on. I.e. we need an adjective
> better than "to-be-mapped-into-the-full-pagtable".
> 
> Anyway, I think this will be an easier debate to have once we're looking
> at actual code etc - I'm still debugging my page allocator changes to
> support the guest_memfd thing and that code doesn't need to care about
> "sensitivity" at all, there's just one address space and data is
> "mapped" or "unmapped". So I propose we defer this conversation until
> after that...

Ok, sounds good.

Thx.

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    Boris.

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