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On LPAE, each level 1 (pgd) page table entry maps 1GiB, and the level 2
(pmd) entries map 2MiB.

When the identity mapping is created on LPAE, the pgd pointers are copied
from the swapper_pg_dir.  If we find that we need to modify the contents
of a pmd, we allocate a new empty pmd table and insert it into the
appropriate 1GB slot, before then filling it with the identity mapping.

However, if the 1GB slot covers the kernel lowmem mappings, we obliterate
those mappings.

When replacing a PMD, first copy the old PMD contents to the new PMD, so
that we preserve the existing mappings, particularly the mappings of the
kernel itself.

[rewrote commit message and added code comment -- rmk]

Fixes: ae2de10 ("ARM: LPAE: Add identity mapping support for the 3-level page table format")
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored and Russell King committed Jul 29, 2014
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Expand Up @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ static void idmap_add_pmd(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pr_warning("Failed to allocate identity pmd.\n");
return;
}
/*
* Copy the original PMD to ensure that the PMD entries for
* the kernel image are preserved.
*/
if (!pud_none(*pud))
memcpy(pmd, pmd_offset(pud, 0),
PTRS_PER_PMD * sizeof(pmd_t));
pud_populate(&init_mm, pud, pmd);
pmd += pmd_index(addr);
} else
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