Re: [patch 1/5] mm: remap_vmalloc_range

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:
>
> Add a remap_vmalloc_range and get rid of as many remap_pfn_range and
> vm_insert_page loops as possible.
> 
> remap_vmalloc_range can do a whole lot of nice range checking even
> if the caller gets it wrong (which it looks like one or two do).
> 
> 
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED))
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED)) {
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED))
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SHARED))
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, start, page + vma->vm_pgoff,
> -						PAGE_SIZE, vma->vm_page_prot))
> -		if (remap_pfn_range(vma, addr, pfn, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_READONLY))

You've removed the ability for the caller to set the pte protections - it
now always uses vma->vm_page_prot.

please explain...
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