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| author | Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> | 2020-06-01 21:52:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-02 10:59:12 -0700 |
| commit | 7f0a002b5a21302d9f4b29ba83c96cd433ff3769 (patch) | |
| tree | 31b8e0998e5f29799b8d6912924ee46d53d087b2 /arch/x86/mm/pti.c | |
| parent | 73f693c3a705756032c2863bfb37570276902d7d (diff) | |
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x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting
Remove fault handling on vmalloc areas, as the vmalloc code now takes
care of synchronizing changes to all page-tables in the system.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515140023.25469-8-joro@8bytes.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pti.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pti.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c index 843aa10a4cb6..da0fb17a1a36 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c @@ -448,13 +448,7 @@ static void __init pti_clone_user_shared(void) * the sp1 and sp2 slots. * * This is done for all possible CPUs during boot to ensure - * that it's propagated to all mms. If we were to add one of - * these mappings during CPU hotplug, we would need to take - * some measure to make sure that every mm that subsequently - * ran on that CPU would have the relevant PGD entry in its - * pagetables. The usual vmalloc_fault() mechanism would not - * work for page faults taken in entry_SYSCALL_64 before RSP - * is set up. + * that it's propagated to all mms. */ unsigned long va = (unsigned long)&per_cpu(cpu_tss_rw, cpu); |