> There is a potential problem here, as Will Deacon wrote up at: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20190827131818.14724-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > ... in the section starting: > > | *** Other architecture maintainers -- start here! *** > > ... whereby the CPU can spuriously fault on an access after observing a > valid PTE. > > For arm64 we handle the spurious fault, and it looks like x86 would need > something like its vmalloc_fault() applying to the shadow region to > cater for this. I'm not really up on x86 - my first thought would be that their stronger memory ordering might be sufficient but I really don't know. Reading the thread I see arm and powerpc discussions but nothing from anyone else, so I'm none the wiser there... Andy, do you have any thoughts? Regards, Daniel > > Thanks, > Mark.
