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    x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings · 58a18fe9
    Joerg Roedel authored
    Remove the code to sync the vmalloc and ioremap ranges for x86-64. The
    page-table pages are all pre-allocated so that synchronization is
    no longer necessary.
    
    This is a patch that already went into the kernel as:
    
    	commit 8bb9bf24 ("x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings")
    
    But it had to be reverted later because it unveiled a bug from:
    
    	commit 6eb82f99 ("x86/mm: Pre-allocate P4D/PUD pages for vmalloc area")
    
    The bug in that commit causes the P4D/PUD pages not to be correctly
    allocated, making the synchronization still necessary. That issue got
    fixed meanwhile upstream:
    
    	commit 995909a4 ("x86/mm/64: Do not dereference non-present PGD entries")
    
    With that fix it is safe again to remove the page-table synchronization
    for vmalloc/ioremap ranges on x86-64.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814151947.26229-2-joro@8bytes.org
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