Hi all,
The recent introduction of break-before-make on the huge vmap path in
b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page table")
introduced a pair of arch functions for freeing a child level of page
table before putting down a huge mapping at the parent level.
Whilst this works well, the semantics of the pXd_free_pYd_table() function
are slightly confusing, and this led to an over-eager VM_WARN_ON in the
arm64 code that we fixed in -rc3 [1]. Linus suggested that the interface
could be tidied up so that the pXd_present() checks are moved into the
caller, so I've implemented that and generally cleaned up the ioremap code
so that it's easier to follow. I also extended the break-before-make code
to cover the huge p4d case, although this remains unused by any architectures.
Feedback welcome.
Cheers,
Will
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/7/898
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Will Deacon (5):
ioremap: Rework pXd_free_pYd_page() API
arm64: mmu: Drop pXd_present() checks from pXd_free_pYd_table()
x86: pgtable: Drop pXd_none() checks from pXd_free_pYd_table()
lib/ioremap: Ensure phys_addr actually corresponds to a physical
address
lib/ioremap: Ensure break-before-make is used for huge p4d mappings
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 13 +++---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 14 +++---
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 5 ++
lib/ioremap.c | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
4 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
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