[PATCH v3 1/2] arm64: pageattr: Use pagewalk API to change memory permissions

Karim Manaouil kmanaouil.dev at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 07:50:21 PDT 2025


On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 05:27:27PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 07:13:51PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
> > +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE((next - addr) != PGDIR_SIZE))
> > +			return -EINVAL;
> 
> I guess the point here is to assert that the searched range _entirely
> spans_ the folio that the higher order leaf page table entry describes.
> 
> I'm guessing this is desired.
> 
> But I'm not sure this should be a warning?
> 
> What if you happen to walk a range that isn't aligned like this?

My understandging is that the caller must ensure that addr is
pud/pmd/pte-aligned. But, imho, since -EINVAL is returned, I don't think
the WARN_ON_ONCE() is needed.

-- 
~karim



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