From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f69.google.com (mail-oi0-f69.google.com [209.85.218.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB2A6B0003 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:55:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-oi0-f69.google.com with SMTP id w189-v6so1777102oiw.13 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:55:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foss.arm.com (usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com. [217.140.101.70]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y77-v6si462000oia.98.2018.06.27.08.55.56 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2018 08:55:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:56:33 +0100 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr Message-ID: <20180627155632.GH30631@arm.com> References: <20180627141348.21777-1-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <20180627141348.21777-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180627141348.21777-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Toshi Kani Cc: mhocko@suse.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, cpandya@codeaurora.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel , stable@vger.kernel.org Hi Toshi, On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:13:47AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > From: Chintan Pandya > > 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