linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v34 10/24] mm: Add vm

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Message-ID: <20200708143708.GR25523@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 15:37:08 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v34 10/24] mm: Add vm_ops->mprotect()

On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 05:33:20PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> I get the point but I don't think that your proposal could work given
> that mprotect-callback takes neither 'prev' nor 'newflags' as its
> parameters. The current callback has no means to call mprotect_fixup()
> properly.
> 
> It would have to be extended
> 
> 	int (*mprotect)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> 			struct vm_area_struct **pprev, unsigned long start,
> 			unsigned long end, unsigned long prot,
> 			unsigned long newflags);
> 
> Is this what you want?

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200625173050.GF7703@casper.infradead.org/