Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces"

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 05:14:07PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> 
> This reverts commit 28ee90fe6048fa7b7ceaeb8831c0e4e454a4cf89.
> 
> This commit is broken for x86, as it unmaps the PTE and PMD
> pages and immediatly frees them without doing a TLB flush.
> 
> Further this lacks synchronization with other page-tables in
> the system when the PMD pages are not shared between
> mm_structs.
> 
> On x86-32 with PAE and PTI patches on-top this patch
> triggers the BUG_ON in vmalloc_sync_one() because the kernel
> and the process page-table were not synchronized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 28 ++--------------------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

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