From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qk1-f200.google.com (mail-qk1-f200.google.com [209.85.222.200]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7606B7452 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2018 07:30:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-qk1-f200.google.com with SMTP id h68so19975903qke.3 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2018 04:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com. [209.132.183.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f188si8213803qkb.226.2018.12.05.04.30.07 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 05 Dec 2018 04:30:07 -0800 (PST) From: David Hildenbrand Subject: [PATCH RFC 3/7] powerpc/vdso: don't clear PG_reserved Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:28:47 +0100 Message-Id: <20181205122851.5891-4-david@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20181205122851.5891-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20181205122851.5891-1-david@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, David Hildenbrand , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Christophe Leroy , Kees Cook , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , Matthew Wilcox The VDSO is part of the kernel image and therefore the struct pages are marked as reserved during boot. As we install a special mapping, the actual struct pages will never be exposed to MM via the page tables. We can therefore leave the pages marked as reserved. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c index 65b3bdb99f0b..d59dc2e9a695 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c @@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void) BUG_ON(vdso32_pagelist == NULL); for (i = 0; i < vdso32_pages; i++) { struct page *pg = virt_to_page(vdso32_kbase + i*PAGE_SIZE); - ClearPageReserved(pg); get_page(pg); vdso32_pagelist[i] = pg; } @@ -809,7 +808,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void) BUG_ON(vdso64_pagelist == NULL); for (i = 0; i < vdso64_pages; i++) { struct page *pg = virt_to_page(vdso64_kbase + i*PAGE_SIZE); - ClearPageReserved(pg); get_page(pg); vdso64_pagelist[i] = pg; } -- 2.17.2