[PATCH 3/5] mm: export zap_page_range_single and list_lru_add/del

Alice Ryhl aliceryhl at google.com
Thu Feb 5 12:19:22 UTC 2026


On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 01:13:57PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (arm) wrote:
> On 2/5/26 13:10, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 11:58:00AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2026 at 12:43:03PM +0100, David Hildenbrand (arm) wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I don't expect anybody to set zap_details, but yeah, it could be abused.
> > > > It could be abused right now from anywhere else in the kernel
> > > > where we don't build as a module :)
> > > > 
> > > > Apparently we export a similar function in rust where we just removed the last parameter.
> > > 
> > > To clarify, said Rust function gets inlined into Rust Binder, so Rust
> > > Binder calls the zap_page_range_single() symbol directly.
> > 
> > Presumably only for things compiled into the kernel right?
> 
> Could Rust just use zap_vma_ptes() or does it want to zap things in VMAs
> that are not VM_PFNMAP?

The VMA is VM_MIXEDMAP, not VM_PFNMAP.

Alice



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