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x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings
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Remove the code to sync the vmalloc and ioremap ranges for x86-64. The
page-table pages are all pre-allocated now so that synchronization is
no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200721095953.6218-3-joro@8bytes.org
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Joerg Roedel authored and Ingo Molnar committed Jul 27, 2020
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
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@@ -159,6 +159,4 @@ extern unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d;

#define PGD_KERNEL_START ((PAGE_SIZE / 2) / sizeof(pgd_t))

#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK (pgtable_l5_enabled() ? PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED : PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED)

#endif /* _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_64_DEFS_H */
5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
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@@ -217,11 +217,6 @@ void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
sync_global_pgds_l4(start, end);
}

void arch_sync_kernel_mappings(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
sync_global_pgds(start, end);
}

/*
* NOTE: This function is marked __ref because it calls __init function
* (alloc_bootmem_pages). It's safe to do it ONLY when after_bootmem == 0.

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