3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6863ea0cda8725072522cd78bda332d9a0b73150 ] It is perfectly okay to take page-faults, especially on the vmalloc area while executing an NMI handler. Remove the warning. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge <dhgutteridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Cc: aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: hughd@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Waiman Long <llong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: joro@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532533683-5988-2-git-send-email-joro@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsign if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END)) return -1; - WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi()); - /* * Synchronize this task's top level page-table * with the 'reference' page table.
