From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, rppt@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] A pagetable library for the kernel?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:49:14 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260326214914.GJ8437@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260219175113.618562-1-jackmanb@google.com>
On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 05:51:09PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> 1. The collection of APIs that are specific to userspace pagetables: mmu_gather,
> mm/pagewalk.c, some vm_fault logic, all that good stuff.
I have done something for iommu that has a very general part that may
very well be a useful component of this:
https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/generic_pt.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/iommu/generic_pt
There are lots of things that need various page table algorithms..
Jason
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-19 17:51 [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] A pagetable library for the kernel? Brendan Jackman
2026-02-23 11:28 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-02-25 17:06 ` Brendan Jackman
2026-02-26 23:57 ` Isaac Manjarres
2026-03-26 21:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
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