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authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2020-06-01 21:52:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-02 10:59:12 -0700
commit7f0a002b5a21302d9f4b29ba83c96cd433ff3769 (patch)
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parentmm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings() (diff)
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x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting
Remove fault handling on vmalloc areas, as the vmalloc code now takes care of synchronizing changes to all page-tables in the system. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515140023.25469-8-joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
index e6d7894ad127..fd945ce78554 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
@@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
/*
* Sync back kernel address range again. We already did this in
* setup_arch(), but percpu data also needs to be available in
- * the smpboot asm. We can't reliably pick up percpu mappings
- * using vmalloc_fault(), because exception dispatch needs
- * percpu data.
+ * the smpboot asm and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() doesn't sync to
+ * swapper_pg_dir on 32-bit. The per-cpu mappings need to be available
+ * there too.
*
* FIXME: Can the later sync in setup_cpu_entry_areas() replace
* this call?