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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64/mm: Refactor PMD_PRESENT_INVALID and
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To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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On 30/04/2024 14:28, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 12:35:49PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> There is still one problem I need to resolve; During this work I discovered that
>> core-mm can call pmd_mkinvalid() for swap pmds. On arm64 this will turn the swap
>> pmd into a present pmd, and BadThings can happen in GUP-fast (and any other
>> lockless SW table walkers). My original fix modified core-mm to only call
>> pmd_mkinvalid() for present pmds. But discussion over there has shown that arm64
>> is the only arch that cannot handle this. So I've been convinced that it's
>> probably more robust to make arm64 handle it gracefully and add tests to
>> debug_vm_pgtable.c to check for this. Patch incoming shortly, but it will cause
>> a conflict with this series. So I'll send a v2 of this once that fix is accepted.
> 
> Sounds fine. I can queue the arm64 pmd_mkinvalid() fix for 6.9 and you
> can base this series on top. But I have a preference for this patchset
> to sit in -next for a bit anyway, so it might be 6.11 material.

Yeah that works for me. I just sent the pmd_mkinvalid() fix.