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

Mike Rapoport rppt at kernel.org
Sun Jun 15 00:25:37 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:
> > -/*
> > - * This function assumes that the range is mapped with PAGE_SIZE pages.
> > - */
> > -static int __change_memory_common(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
> > +static int ___change_memory_common(unsigned long start, unsigned long size,
> >  				pgprot_t set_mask, pgprot_t clear_mask)
> 
> I wouldn't presume to comment on conventions in arm64 arch code, but that's
> a lot of underscores :P
> 
> I wonder if this is the best name for it as you're not only invoking it
> from __change_memory_common()?

Could update_range_pgport() work?
 
> And yes this is a pedantic comment, I realise :)
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.



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