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x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings
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 8bb9bf2 ("x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings") But it had to be reverted later because it unveiled a bug from: commit 6eb82f9 ("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 995909a ("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: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814151947.26229-2-joro@8bytes.org
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