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<title>Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-31T21:10:54Z</updated>
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<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:

 - Support for the Svpbmt extension, which allows memory attributes to
   be encoded in pages

 - Support for the Allwinner D1's implementation of page-based memory
   attributes

 - Support for running rv32 binaries on rv64 systems, via the compat
   subsystem

 - Support for kexec_file()

 - Support for the new generic ticket-based spinlocks, which allows us
   to also move to qrwlock. These should have already gone in through
   the asm-geneic tree as well

 - A handful of cleanups and fixes, include some larger ones around
   atomics and XIP

* tag 'riscv-for-linus-5.19-mw0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (51 commits)
  RISC-V: Prepare dropping week attribute from arch_kexec_apply_relocations[_add]
  riscv: compat: Using seperated vdso_maps for compat_vdso_info
  RISC-V: Fix the XIP build
  RISC-V: Split out the XIP fixups into their own file
  RISC-V: ignore xipImage
  RISC-V: Avoid empty create_*_mapping definitions
  riscv: Don't output a bogus mmu-type on a no MMU kernel
  riscv: atomic: Add custom conditional atomic operation implementation
  riscv: atomic: Optimize dec_if_positive functions
  riscv: atomic: Cleanup unnecessary definition
  RISC-V: Load purgatory in kexec_file
  RISC-V: Add purgatory
  RISC-V: Support for kexec_file on panic
  RISC-V: Add kexec_file support
  RISC-V: use memcpy for kexec_file mode
  kexec_file: Fix kexec_file.c build error for riscv platform
  riscv: compat: Add COMPAT Kbuild skeletal support
  riscv: compat: ptrace: Add compat_arch_ptrace implement
  riscv: compat: signal: Add rt_frame implementation
  riscv: add memory-type errata for T-Head
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:32:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-26T19:32:41Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
  reviewed, etc.

   - Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
     readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.

   - Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
     managed on a per-cgroup basis.

   - Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
     runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
     feature.

   - Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
     pagetable invalidation.

   - Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
     virtualization.

   - Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
     page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.

   - David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.

   - Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
     against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.

   - More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
     the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
     ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
     available.

   - Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
     mprotect().

   - Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
     support.

   - David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
     get_user_pages().

   - Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.

   - Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
     device-dax's compound devmaps.

   - Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
     Khandual.

   - Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
     transparent hugepages.

   - Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.

  ... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
  customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
  mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
  selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
  selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
  selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
  selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
  ksm: fix typo in comment
  selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
  Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
  mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
  include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
  include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
  mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
  MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
  zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
  mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
  cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
  mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
  tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
  nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2022-05-24T04:06:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-24T04:06:11Z</published>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:

 - Initial support for the ARMv9 Scalable Matrix Extension (SME).

   SME takes the approach used for vectors in SVE and extends this to
   provide architectural support for matrix operations. No KVM support
   yet, SME is disabled in guests.

 - Support for crashkernel reservations above ZONE_DMA via the
   'crashkernel=X,high' command line option.

 - btrfs search_ioctl() fix for live-lock with sub-page faults.

 - arm64 perf updates: support for the Hisilicon "CPA" PMU for
   monitoring coherent I/O traffic, support for Arm's CMN-650 and
   CMN-700 interconnect PMUs, minor driver fixes, kerneldoc cleanup.

 - Kselftest updates for SME, BTI, MTE.

 - Automatic generation of the system register macros from a 'sysreg'
   file describing the register bitfields.

 - Update the type of the function argument holding the ESR_ELx register
   value to unsigned long to match the architecture register size
   (originally 32-bit but extended since ARMv8.0).

 - stacktrace cleanups.

 - ftrace cleanups.

 - Miscellaneous updates, most notably: arm64-specific huge_ptep_get(),
   avoid executable mappings in kexec/hibernate code, drop TLB flushing
   from get_clear_flush() (and rename it to get_clear_contig()),
   ARCH_NR_GPIO bumped to 2048 for ARCH_APPLE.

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (145 commits)
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for FAR_ELx
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for DACR32_EL2
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for CSSELR_EL1
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for CPACR_ELx
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for CONTEXTIDR_ELx
  arm64/sysreg: Generate definitions for CLIDR_EL1
  arm64/sve: Move sve_free() into SVE code section
  arm64: Kconfig.platforms: Add comments
  arm64: Kconfig: Fix indentation and add comments
  arm64: mm: avoid writable executable mappings in kexec/hibernate code
  arm64: lds: move special code sections out of kernel exec segment
  arm64/hugetlb: Implement arm64 specific huge_ptep_get()
  arm64/hugetlb: Use ptep_get() to get the pte value of a huge page
  arm64: kdump: Do not allocate crash low memory if not needed
  arm64/sve: Generate ZCR definitions
  arm64/sme: Generate defintions for SVCR
  arm64/sme: Generate SMPRI_EL1 definitions
  arm64/sme: Automatically generate SMPRIMAP_EL2 definitions
  arm64/sme: Automatically generate SMIDR_EL1 defines
  arm64/sme: Automatically generate defines for SMCR
  ...
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<title>Merge branches 'for-next/sme', 'for-next/stacktrace', 'for-next/fault-in-subpage', 'for-next/misc', 'for-next/ftrace' and 'for-next/crashkernel', remote-tracking branch 'arm64/for-next/perf' into for-next/core</title>
<updated>2022-05-20T17:50:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-20T17:50:35Z</published>
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* arm64/for-next/perf:
  perf/arm-cmn: Decode CAL devices properly in debugfs
  perf/arm-cmn: Fix filter_sel lookup
  perf/marvell_cn10k: Fix tad_pmu_event_init() to check pmu type first
  drivers/perf: hisi: Add Support for CPA PMU
  drivers/perf: hisi: Associate PMUs in SICL with CPUs online
  drivers/perf: arm_spe: Expose saturating counter to 16-bit
  perf/arm-cmn: Add CMN-700 support
  perf/arm-cmn: Refactor occupancy filter selector
  perf/arm-cmn: Add CMN-650 support
  dt-bindings: perf: arm-cmn: Add CMN-650 and CMN-700
  perf: check return value of armpmu_request_irq()
  perf: RISC-V: Remove non-kernel-doc ** comments

* for-next/sme: (30 commits)
  : Scalable Matrix Extensions support.
  arm64/sve: Move sve_free() into SVE code section
  arm64/sve: Make kernel FPU protection RT friendly
  arm64/sve: Delay freeing memory in fpsimd_flush_thread()
  arm64/sme: More sensibly define the size for the ZA register set
  arm64/sme: Fix NULL check after kzalloc
  arm64/sme: Add ID_AA64SMFR0_EL1 to __read_sysreg_by_encoding()
  arm64/sme: Provide Kconfig for SME
  KVM: arm64: Handle SME host state when running guests
  KVM: arm64: Trap SME usage in guest
  KVM: arm64: Hide SME system registers from guests
  arm64/sme: Save and restore streaming mode over EFI runtime calls
  arm64/sme: Disable streaming mode and ZA when flushing CPU state
  arm64/sme: Add ptrace support for ZA
  arm64/sme: Implement ptrace support for streaming mode SVE registers
  arm64/sme: Implement ZA signal handling
  arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE signal handling
  arm64/sme: Disable ZA and streaming mode when handling signals
  arm64/sme: Implement traps and syscall handling for SME
  arm64/sme: Implement ZA context switching
  arm64/sme: Implement streaming SVE context switching
  ...

* for-next/stacktrace:
  : Stacktrace cleanups.
  arm64: stacktrace: align with common naming
  arm64: stacktrace: rename stackframe to unwind_state
  arm64: stacktrace: rename unwinder functions
  arm64: stacktrace: make struct stackframe private to stacktrace.c
  arm64: stacktrace: delete PCS comment
  arm64: stacktrace: remove NULL task check from unwind_frame()

* for-next/fault-in-subpage:
  : btrfs search_ioctl() live-lock fix using fault_in_subpage_writeable().
  btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults
  arm64: Add support for user sub-page fault probing
  mm: Add fault_in_subpage_writeable() to probe at sub-page granularity

* for-next/misc:
  : Miscellaneous patches.
  arm64: Kconfig.platforms: Add comments
  arm64: Kconfig: Fix indentation and add comments
  arm64: mm: avoid writable executable mappings in kexec/hibernate code
  arm64: lds: move special code sections out of kernel exec segment
  arm64/hugetlb: Implement arm64 specific huge_ptep_get()
  arm64/hugetlb: Use ptep_get() to get the pte value of a huge page
  arm64: mm: Make arch_faults_on_old_pte() check for migratability
  arm64: mte: Clean up user tag accessors
  arm64/hugetlb: Drop TLB flush from get_clear_flush()
  arm64: Declare non global symbols as static
  arm64: mm: Cleanup useless parameters in zone_sizes_init()
  arm64: fix types in copy_highpage()
  arm64: Set ARCH_NR_GPIO to 2048 for ARCH_APPLE
  arm64: cputype: Avoid overflow using MIDR_IMPLEMENTOR_MASK
  arm64: document the boot requirements for MTE
  arm64/mm: Compute PTRS_PER_[PMD|PUD] independently of PTRS_PER_PTE

* for-next/ftrace:
  : ftrace cleanups.
  arm64/ftrace: Make function graph use ftrace directly
  ftrace: cleanup ftrace_graph_caller enable and disable

* for-next/crashkernel:
  : Support for crashkernel reservations above ZONE_DMA.
  arm64: kdump: Do not allocate crash low memory if not needed
  docs: kdump: Update the crashkernel description for arm64
  of: Support more than one crash kernel regions for kexec -s
  of: fdt: Add memory for devices by DT property "linux,usable-memory-range"
  arm64: kdump: Reimplement crashkernel=X
  arm64: Use insert_resource() to simplify code
  kdump: return -ENOENT if required cmdline option does not exist
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Kconfig: Fix indentation and add comments</title>
<updated>2022-05-18T13:41:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Juerg Haefliger</name>
<email>juerg.haefliger@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-17T14:16:47Z</published>
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The convention for indentation seems to be a single tab. Help text is
further indented by an additional two whitespaces. Fix the lines that
violate these rules.

While add it, add trailing comments to endif and endmenu statements for
better readability.

Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger &lt;juergh@canonical.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220517141648.331976-2-juergh@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64/mm: enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T14:20:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kefeng Wang</name>
<email>wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T03:23:06Z</published>
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As commit d283d422c6c4 ("x86: mm: add x86_64 support for page table
check") , enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK on arm64.

Add additional page table check stubs for page table helpers, these stubs
can be used to check the existing page table entries.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220507110114.4128854-6-tongtiangen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tong Tiangen &lt;tongtiangen@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Set ARCH_NR_GPIO to 2048 for ARCH_APPLE</title>
<updated>2022-05-04T15:33:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Hector Martin</name>
<email>marcan@marcan.st</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T09:14:27Z</published>
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We're already running into the 512 GPIO limit on t600[01] depending on
how many SMC GPIOs we allocate, and a 2-die version could double that.
Let's make it 2K to be safe for now.

Signed-off-by: Hector Martin &lt;marcan@marcan.st&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502091427.28416-1-marcan@marcan.st
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: cleanup CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP*</title>
<updated>2022-04-29T06:16:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T06:16:15Z</published>
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The word of "free" is not expressive enough to express the feature of
optimizing vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB, rename this keywork
to "optimize".  In this patch , cheanup configs to make code more
expressive.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220404074652.68024-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>arm64/mm: enable ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT</title>
<updated>2022-04-29T06:16:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>anshuman.khandual@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T06:16:13Z</published>
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This defines and exports a platform specific custom vm_get_page_prot() via
subscribing ARCH_HAS_VM_GET_PAGE_PROT. It localizes arch_vm_get_page_prot()
and moves it near vm_get_page_prot().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414062125.609297-4-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;anshuman.khandual@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Khalid Aziz &lt;khalid.aziz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arm64: mm: hugetlb: enable HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP for arm64</title>
<updated>2022-04-29T06:16:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T06:16:03Z</published>
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The feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with each
HugeTLB page aims to free its vmemmap pages (used as struct page) to save
memory, where is ~14GB/16GB per 1TB HugeTLB pages (2MB/1GB type).  In
short, when a HugeTLB page is allocated or freed, the vmemmap array
representing the range associated with the page will need to be remapped. 
When a page is allocated, vmemmap pages are freed after remapping.  When a
page is freed, previously discarded vmemmap pages must be allocated before
remapping.  More implementations and details can be found here [1].

The infrastructure of freeing vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB
page is already there, we can easily enable HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP for
arm64, the only thing to be fixed is flush_dcache_page() .

flush_dcache_page() need to be adapted to operate on the head page's flags
since the tail vmemmap pages are mapped with read-only after the feature
is enabled (clear operation is not permitted).

There was some discussions about this in the thread [2], but there was no
conclusion in the end.  And I copied the concern proposed by Anshuman to
here and explain why those concern is superfluous.  It is safe to enable
it for x86_64 as well as arm64.

1st concern:
'''
But what happens when a hot remove section's vmemmap area (which is
being teared down) is nearby another vmemmap area which is either created
or being destroyed for HugeTLB alloc/free purpose. As you mentioned
HugeTLB pages inside the hot remove section might be safe. But what about
other HugeTLB areas whose vmemmap area shares page table entries with
vmemmap entries for a section being hot removed ? Massive HugeTLB alloc
/use/free test cycle using memory just adjacent to a memory hotplug area,
which is always added and removed periodically, should be able to expose
this problem.
'''

Answer: At the time memory is removed, all HugeTLB pages either have been
migrated away or dissolved.  So there is no race between memory hot remove
and free_huge_page_vmemmap().  Therefore, HugeTLB pages inside the hot
remove section is safe.  Let's talk your question "what about other
HugeTLB areas whose vmemmap area shares page table entries with vmemmap
entries for a section being hot removed ?", the question is not
established.  The minimal granularity size of hotplug memory 128MB (on
arm64, 4k base page), any HugeTLB smaller than 128MB is within a section,
then, there is no share PTE page tables between HugeTLB in this section
and ones in other sections and a HugeTLB page could not cross two
sections.  In this case, the section cannot be freed.  Any HugeTLB bigger
than 128MB (section size) whose vmemmap pages is an integer multiple of
2MB (PMD-mapped).  As long as:

  1) HugeTLBs are naturally aligned, power-of-two sizes
  2) The HugeTLB size &gt;= the section size
  3) The HugeTLB size &gt;= the vmemmap leaf mapping size

Then a HugeTLB will not share any leaf page table entries with *anything
else*, but will share intermediate entries.  In this case, at the time
memory is removed, all HugeTLB pages either have been migrated away or
dissolved.  So there is also no race between memory hot remove and
free_huge_page_vmemmap().

2nd concern:
'''
differently, not sure if ptdump would require any synchronization.

Dumping an wrong value is probably okay but crashing because a page table
entry is being freed after ptdump acquired the pointer is bad. On arm64,
ptdump() is protected against hotremove via [get|put]_online_mems().
'''

Answer: The ptdump should be fine since vmemmap_remap_free() only
exchanges PTEs or splits the PMD entry (which means allocating a PTE page
table).  Both operations do not free any page tables (PTE), so ptdump
cannot run into a UAF on any page tables.  The worst case is just dumping
an wrong value.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210510030027.56044-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210518091826.36937-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com/

[songmuchun@bytedance.com: restructure the code comment inside flush_dcache_page()]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414072646.21910-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220331065640.5777-2-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Barry Song &lt;baohua@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam &lt;bodeddub@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morse &lt;james.morse@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Xiongchun Duan &lt;duanxiongchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Fam Zheng &lt;fam.zheng@bytedance.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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