Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Kani, Toshi" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] ioremap: Rework pXd_free_pYd_page() API | | Date | Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:36:24 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 11:26 +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > The recently merged API for ensuring break-before-make on page-table > entries when installing huge mappings in the vmalloc/ioremap region is > fairly counter-intuitive, resulting in the arch freeing functions > (e.g. pmd_free_pte_page()) being called even on entries that aren't > present. This resulted in a minor bug in the arm64 implementation, giving > rise to spurious VM_WARN messages. > > This patch moves the pXd_present() checks out into the core code, > refactoring the callsites at the same time so that we avoid the complex > conjunctions when determining whether or not we can put down a huge > mapping. > > Cc: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org> > Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Yes, this looks nicer.
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Thanks, -Toshi
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