On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 09:21 -0400, Song Liu wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2019, at 4:16 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > What that code wants to do is skip to the end of the pud, a > > > pmd_size > > > increase will not do that. And right below this, there's a second > > > instance of this exact pattern. > > > > > > Did I get the below right? > > > > > > --- > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c > > > index b196524759ec..32b20b3cb227 100644 > > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/pti.c > > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pti.c > > > @@ -330,12 +330,14 @@ pti_clone_pgtable(unsigned long start, > > > unsigned long end, > > > > > > pud = pud_offset(p4d, addr); > > > if (pud_none(*pud)) { > > > + addr &= PUD_MASK; > > > addr += PUD_SIZE; > > > > round_up(addr, PUD_SIZE); > > I guess we need "round_up(addr + PMD_SIZE, PUD_SIZE)". What does that do if start is less than PMD_SIZE away from the next PUD_SIZE boundary? How about: round_up(addr + 1, PUD_SIZE) ?