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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index e27fbf887f3b..193350b51f90 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -334,7 +334,12 @@ int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (changed && dirty) {
*pmdp = entry;
pmd_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
- flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+ /*
+ * We had a write-protection fault here and changed the pmd
+ * to to more permissive. No need to flush the TLB for that,
+ * #PF is architecturally guaranteed to do that and in the
+ * worst-case we'll generate a spurious fault.
+ */
}
return changed;