4 Mar
2021
4 Mar
'21
5:20 a.m.
On Tuesday, 2 March 2021 11:41:52 PM AEDT Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
However try_to_protect() scans the PTEs again under the PTL so checking
the
mapping of interest actually gets replaced during the rmap walk seems like
a
reasonable solution. Thanks for the comments.
It does seem cleaner if you can manage it, the notifier will still be needd to program the HW though
Checking during the rmap walk wasn't hard but ultimately pointless. As you say a range notifier and lock is required to program the hardware, which requires checking the mappings with a mmu notifier sequence anyway.
- Alistair