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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/30] x86, mm: do not set _PAGE_USER for init_mm page tables
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Dave Hansen
<dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> +
> static inline void pmd_populate_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm,
> pmd_t *pmd, pte_t *pte)
> {
> + pteval_t pgtable_flags = mm_pgtable_flags(mm);

Why is "pmd_populate_kernel()" using mm_pgtable_flags(mm)?

It should just use _KERNPG_TABLE unconditionally, shouldn't it?
Nothing to do with init_mm, it's populating a _kernel_ page table
regardless, no?

Linus

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