[PATCH 03/12] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable()

[Ingo Molnar]

So when memory hotplug removes a piece of physical memory from pagetable
mappings, it also frees the underlying PGD entry.

This complicates PGD management, so don't do this. We can keep the
PGD mapped and the PUD table all clear - it's only a single 4K page
per 512 GB of memory hotplugged.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 27 ---------------------------
 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 1921acbd49fd..2d5931d343cd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -770,27 +770,6 @@ static void __meminit free_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, pud_t *pud)
 	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 }
 
-/* Return true if pgd is changed, otherwise return false. */
-static bool __meminit free_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, pgd_t *pgd)
-{
-	pud_t *pud;
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++) {
-		pud = pud_start + i;
-		if (pud_val(*pud))
-			return false;
-	}
-
-	/* free a pud table */
-	free_pagetable(pgd_page(*pgd), 0);
-	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-	pgd_clear(pgd);
-	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static void __meminit
 remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		 bool direct)
@@ -982,7 +961,6 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 	unsigned long addr;
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
-	bool pgd_changed = false;
 
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -993,13 +971,8 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 
 		pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
 		remove_pud_table(pud, addr, next, direct);
-		if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd))
-			pgd_changed = true;
 	}
 
-	if (pgd_changed)
-		sync_global_pgds(start, end - 1, 1);
-
 	flush_tlb_all();
 }
 
-- 
2.1.4

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