Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86/mm: Sync also unmappings in vmalloc_sync_one()

[Joerg Roedel]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:04:57AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > No, you are right, I missed that. It is a bug in this patch, the code
> > that breaks out of the loop in vmalloc_sync_all() needs to be removed as
> > well. Will do that in the next version.
> 
> I assume that p4d/pud do not need the pmd treatment, but a comment
> explaining why would be appreciated.

Yes, p4d and pud don't need to be handled here, as the code is 32-bit
only and there p4d is folded anyway. Pud is only relevant for PAE and
will already be mapped when the page-table is created (for performance
reasons, because pud is top-level at PAE and mapping it later requires a
TLB flush).
The pud with PAE also never changes during the life-time of the
page-table because we can't map a huge-page there. I will put that into
a comment.

Thanks,

	Joerg