Hi Toshi,
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:13:47AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> From: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The following kernel panic was observed on ARM64 platform due to a stale
> TLB entry.
>
> 1. ioremap with 4K size, a valid pte page table is set.
> 2. iounmap it, its pte entry is set to 0.
> 3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, update its pmd entry with
> a new value.
> 4. CPU may hit an exception because the old pmd entry is still in TLB,
> which leads to a kernel panic.
>
> Commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page
> table") has addressed this panic by falling to pte mappings in the above
> case on ARM64.
>
> To support pmd mappings in all cases, TLB purge needs to be performed
> in this case on ARM64.
>
> Add a new arg, 'addr', to pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page()
> so that TLB purge can be added later in seprate patches.
So I acked v13 of Chintan's series posted here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-June/582953.html
any chance this lot could all be merged together, please?
Will
