On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 06:06:58PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Both pgtable_cache_init() and pgd_cache_init() are used to initialize kmem
> > cache for page table allocations on several architectures that do not use
> > PAGE_SIZE tables for one or more levels of the page table hierarchy.
> >
> > Most architectures do not implement these functions and use __week default
> > NOP implementation of pgd_cache_init(). Since there is no such default for
> > pgtable_cache_init(), its empty stub is duplicated among most
> > architectures.
> >
> > Rename the definitions of pgd_cache_init() to pgtable_cache_init() and drop
> > empty stubs of pgtable_cache_init().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c b/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c
> > index 7548f9c..4a64089 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/pgd.c
> > @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
> > kmem_cache_free(pgd_cache, pgd);
> > }
> >
> > -void __init pgd_cache_init(void)
> > +void __init pgtable_cache_init(void)
> > {
> > if (PGD_SIZE == PAGE_SIZE)
> > return;
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> > index b90cb5f..2fa8038 100644
> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> > @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ void __init __weak mem_encrypt_init(void) { }
> >
> > void __init __weak poking_init(void) { }
> >
> > -void __init __weak pgd_cache_init(void) { }
> > +void __init __weak pgtable_cache_init(void) { }
> >
> > bool initcall_debug;
> > core_param(initcall_debug, initcall_debug, bool, 0644);
> > @@ -565,7 +565,6 @@ static void __init mm_init(void)
> > init_espfix_bsp();
> > /* Should be run after espfix64 is set up. */
> > pti_init();
> > - pgd_cache_init();
> > }
>
> AFAICT, this change means we now initialise our pgd cache before
> debug_objects_mem_init() has run.
Right.
> Is that going to cause fireworks with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS when we later
> free a pgd?
We don't allocate a pgd at that time, we only create the kmem cache for the
future allocations. And that cache is never destroyed anyway.
> Will
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
