Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 22:33:24 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
        "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 24/28] x86/mm: add sync_global_pgds() for
 configuration with 5-level paging
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On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 10:42:19AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > This basically restores slightly modified version of original
> > sync_global_pgds() which we had before foldedl p4d was introduced.
> >
> > The only modification is protection against 'address' overflow.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > index a991f5c4c2c4..d637893ac8c2 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> > @@ -92,6 +92,52 @@ __setup("noexec32=", nonx32_setup);
> >   * When memory was added/removed make sure all the processes MM have
> >   * suitable PGD entries in the local PGD level page.
> >   */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL
> > +void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int removed)
> > +{
> > +        unsigned long address;
> > +
> > +       for (address = start; address <= end && address >= start;
> > +                       address += PGDIR_SIZE) {
> > +                const pgd_t *pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address);
> > +                struct page *page;
> > +
> > +                /*
> > +                 * When it is called after memory hot remove, pgd_none()
> > +                 * returns true. In this case (removed == 1), we must clear
> > +                 * the PGD entries in the local PGD level page.
> > +                 */
> > +                if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref) && !removed)
> > +                        continue;
> 
> This isn't quite specific to your patch, but can we assert that, if
> removed=1, then we're not operating on the vmalloc range?  Because if
> we do, this will be racy is nasty ways.

Looks like there's no users of removed=1. The last user is gone with
af2cf278ef4f ("x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in
remove_pagetable()")

I'll just drop it (with separate patch).

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov