Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] x86/mm/64: Remove vmalloc/ioremap pgtable synchronization

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Jul 27 2020 - 07:08:13 EST



* Joerg Roedel <joro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
>
> Hi,
>
> here is the third version of the patches to pre-allocate P4D/PUD pages
> for the vmalloc/ioremap areas on x86-64. This makes the page-table
> synchronization code obsolete and so it is also removed.
>
> Please review.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joerg
>
> Changes to v2:
>
> - Rebased to tip/master
> - Some rewording of the commit-messages
>
> Joerg Roedel (3):
> x86/mm: Pre-allocate p4d/pud pages for vmalloc area
> x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings
> x86/mm/64: Make sync_global_pgds() static
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 2 -
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 -
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Applied to tip:x86/mm, thanks Joerg!

Ingo