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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2026-05-29 09:51:07 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2026-05-29 09:51:07 +0200
commit1407e54f8c5bd91c82cfae165f73bb7d71487a15 (patch)
treeec09309c1853a5df73d52eebda6da75168e3b986 /arch
parentbbb9b66f22ecf7ad18387f0b315967255b594100 (diff)
parent39406c05f8f150f1685839acd38ffdd69ff92031 (diff)
downloadlinux-next-history-1407e54f8c5bd91c82cfae165f73bb7d71487a15.tar.gz
Merge branch into tip/master: 'x86/mm'
# New commits in x86/mm: 39406c05f8f1 ("x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages") 952ac097ce98 ("x86: Update comment about pgd_list") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/fault.c5
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/init_64.c40
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c11
3 files changed, 31 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 63de8e8684f23..250942ef60bb3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ is_prefetch(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code, unsigned long addr)
}
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pgd_lock);
+/*
+ * List of all process' PGD pages (excluding init_mm and some other special
+ * system-wide PGDs). Mainly used to keep the kernel portion of the address
+ * space in sync across mms.
+ */
LIST_HEAD(pgd_list);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index df2261fa4f985..7e20b22d658b9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
enum bootmem_type type = bootmem_type(page);
- if (type == SECTION_INFO || type == MIX_SECTION_INFO) {
+ if (type == MIX_SECTION_INFO) {
while (nr_pages--)
put_page_bootmem(page++);
} else {
@@ -1028,13 +1028,24 @@ static void __meminit free_pagetable(struct page *page, int order)
}
}
-static void __meminit free_hugepage_table(struct page *page,
+static void __meminit free_vmemmap_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
{
- if (altmap)
- vmem_altmap_free(altmap, PMD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
- else
- free_pagetable(page, get_order(PMD_SIZE));
+ unsigned long nr_pages = 1u << order;
+
+ if (altmap) {
+ vmem_altmap_free(altmap, nr_pages);
+ } else if (PageReserved(page)) {
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE) &&
+ bootmem_type(page) == SECTION_INFO) {
+ while (nr_pages--)
+ put_page_bootmem(page++);
+ } else {
+ free_reserved_pages(page, nr_pages);
+ }
+ } else {
+ __free_pages(page, order);
+ }
}
static void __meminit free_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, pmd_t *pmd)
@@ -1118,7 +1129,8 @@ remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
return;
if (!direct)
- free_pagetable(pte_page(*pte), 0);
+ /* We never populate base pages from the altmap. */
+ free_vmemmap_pages(pte_page(*pte), 0, NULL);
spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pte_clear(&init_mm, addr, pte);
@@ -1153,19 +1165,19 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
if (IS_ALIGNED(addr, PMD_SIZE) &&
IS_ALIGNED(next, PMD_SIZE)) {
if (!direct)
- free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
- altmap);
+ free_vmemmap_pages(pmd_page(*pmd),
+ PMD_ORDER, altmap);
spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pmd_clear(pmd);
spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
pages++;
} else if (vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(addr, next)) {
- free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
- altmap);
- spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
- pmd_clear(pmd);
- spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ free_vmemmap_pages(pmd_page(*pmd), PMD_ORDER,
+ altmap);
+ spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
+ pmd_clear(pmd);
+ spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
}
continue;
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index da7f0a03cf90c..f32facdb30354 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -99,17 +99,6 @@ static void pgd_dtor(pgd_t *pgd)
spin_unlock(&pgd_lock);
}
-/*
- * List of all pgd's needed for non-PAE so it can invalidate entries
- * in both cached and uncached pgd's; not needed for PAE since the
- * kernel pmd is shared. If PAE were not to share the pmd a similar
- * tactic would be needed. This is essentially codepath-based locking
- * against pageattr.c; it is the unique case in which a valid change
- * of kernel pagetables can't be lazily synchronized by vmalloc faults.
- * vmalloc faults work because attached pagetables are never freed.
- * -- nyc
- */
-
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
/*
* In PAE mode, we need to do a cr3 reload (=tlb flush) when