Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr

[Will Deacon]

Hi Toshi,

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:13:47AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> From: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The following kernel panic was observed on ARM64 platform due to a stale
> TLB entry.
> 
>  1. ioremap with 4K size, a valid pte page table is set.
>  2. iounmap it, its pte entry is set to 0.
>  3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, update its pmd entry with
>     a new value.
>  4. CPU may hit an exception because the old pmd entry is still in TLB,
>     which leads to a kernel panic.
> 
> Commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page
> table") has addressed this panic by falling to pte mappings in the above
> case on ARM64.
> 
> To support pmd mappings in all cases, TLB purge needs to be performed
> in this case on ARM64.
> 
> Add a new arg, 'addr', to pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page()
> so that TLB purge can be added later in seprate patches.

So I acked v13 of Chintan's series posted here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-June/582953.html

any chance this lot could all be merged together, please?

Will