Re: [PATCH v1] arm64/mm: Ensure lazy_mmu_mode never nests

[Will Deacon]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 05:00:51PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 12/06/2025 15:59, Will Deacon wrote:
> > To be honest, I don't think the proposal in this series is really
> > improving what we have. Either we support nested lazy mode or we don't;
> > having __kernel_map_pages() mess around with the lazy mmu state because
> > it somehow knows that set_memory_valid() is going to use it is fragile
> > and ugly.
> > 
> > So I'm incined to leave the current code as-is, unless we can remove it
> > in favour of teaching the core code how to handle it instead.
> 
> Yeah fair enough. I'm not going to have time to do the proper nesting support
> thing. But I'll see if I can find someone internally that I might be able to
> convince. If not, we'll just leave as is.

Sounds fine by me, thanks Ryan.

Will