Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 1:48 PM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > And then if somebody actually needs to pass in "modified fault state"
> > (ie that whole "I'm doing fault-around, so I'll use multiple
> > addresses") they'd never modify the address in the fault info, they'd
> > just pass the address as an explicit argument (like most cases already
> > do - the "change addr or flags in vmf" is actually already _fairly_
> > rare).
>
> Alright then, I'll take another crack at this for v3 and see how far I
> get.

But please do keep it as a separate patch, and if it turns out to be
ugly for whatever reason, treat it as just a "maybe that would help"
suggestion rather than anything stronger..

           Linus