Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v5.10

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 18:08:07 EST


On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 10:24 AM Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings on x86-64 kernels.
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> Hopefully now without the bugs!

Let's hope so.

If this turns out to work this time, can we do a similar preallocation
of the page directories on 32-bit? Because I think now x86-32 is the
only remaining case of doing that arch_sync_kernel_mappings() thing.

Or is there some reason that won't work that I've lost sight of?

Linus