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From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To: Shile Zhang <shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: Fix regression caused by needless vmalloc_sync_all()
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:12:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191114171231.GA21753@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191113095530.228959-1-shile.zhang@linux.alibaba.com>

On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 05:55:30PM +0800, Shile Zhang wrote:
> +#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) && defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
>  	/*
>  	 * First make sure the mappings are removed from all page-tables
>  	 * before they are freed.
> +	 *
> +	 * This is only needed on x86-32 with !SHARED_KERNEL_PMD, which is
> +	 * the case on a PAE kernel with PTI enabled.
>  	 */
> -	vmalloc_sync_all();
> +	if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD && boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
> +		vmalloc_sync_all();
> +#endif

I already submitted another fix for this quite some time ago:

	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191009124418.8286-1-joro@8bytes.org/

Regards,

	Joerg



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-14 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-13  9:55 Shile Zhang
2019-11-13 15:17 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-13 21:12 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-14  0:54   ` Shile Zhang
2019-11-14 13:56 ` Michal Hocko
2019-11-14 14:40   ` Shile Zhang
2019-11-14 17:14     ` Joerg Roedel
2019-11-14 17:12 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2019-11-15  0:01   ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-15  8:38     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-15 23:37       ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-16 17:38         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-15  1:06   ` Shile Zhang

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