Re: [PATCH] mm: Track page table modifications in __apply_to_page_range() construction

[Chris Wilson]

Quoting Joerg Roedel (2020-08-21 11:09:02)
> @@ -2333,6 +2339,7 @@ static int __apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>         pgd_t *pgd;
>         unsigned long next;
>         unsigned long end = addr + size;
> +       pgtbl_mod_mask mask = 0;
>         int err = 0;
>  
>         if (WARN_ON(addr >= end))
> @@ -2343,11 +2350,14 @@ static int __apply_to_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>                 next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>                 if (!create && pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd))
>                         continue;
> -               err = apply_to_p4d_range(mm, pgd, addr, next, fn, data, create);
> +               err = apply_to_p4d_range(mm, pgd, addr, next, fn, data, create, &mask);
>                 if (err)
>                         break;
>         } while (pgd++, addr = next, addr != end);
>  
> +       if (mask & ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK)
> +               arch_sync_kernel_mappings(addr, addr + size);

We need to store the initial addr, as here addr == end [or earlier on
earlier], so range is (start, addr).
-Chris