Re: [PATCH] arm64: proc: Set PTE_NG for table entries to avoid traversing them twice

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:40:06AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Commit 2ce77f6d8a9ae9ce6d80397d88bdceb84a2004cd upstream.
> 
> When KASAN is enabled, the swapper page table contains many identical
> mappings of the zero page, which can lead to a stall during boot whilst
> the G -> nG code continually walks the same page table entries looking
> for global mappings.
> 
> This patch sets the nG bit (bit 11, which is IGNORED) in table entries
> after processing the subtree so we can easily skip them if we see them
> a second time.
> 
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.14+

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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