Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr

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On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 13:23 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Toshi, Thomas,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 04:13:22PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 16:56 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Chintan's patch 2/3 and 3/3 apply cleanly on top of my series. Can you
> > please coordinate with Thomas on the logistics?
> 
> Sure. I guess having this series on a common branch that I can pull into
> arm64 and apply Chintan's other patches on top would work.
> 
> How does that sound?

Should this go thru -mm tree then?

Andrew, Thomas, what do you think? 

Thanks,
-Toshi







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