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Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2016 04:59:17 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Ingo Molnar <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in
 remove_pagetable()

Commit-ID:  af2cf278ef4f9289f88504c3e03cb12f76027575
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/af2cf278ef4f9289f88504c3e03cb12f76027575
Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:22:49 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:26:24 +0200

x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable()

So when memory hotplug removes a piece of physical memory from pagetable
mappings, it also frees the underlying PGD entry.

This complicates PGD management, so don't do this. We can keep the
PGD mapped and the PUD table all clear - it's only a single 4K page
per 512 GB of memory hotplugged.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/064ff6c7275734537f969e876f6cd0baa954d2cc.1468527351.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 27 ---------------------------
 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index bb88fbc..e14f870 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -702,27 +702,6 @@ static void __meminit free_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, pud_t *pud)
 	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 }
 
-/* Return true if pgd is changed, otherwise return false. */
-static bool __meminit free_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, pgd_t *pgd)
-{
-	pud_t *pud;
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++) {
-		pud = pud_start + i;
-		if (!pud_none(*pud))
-			return false;
-	}
-
-	/* free a pud table */
-	free_pagetable(pgd_page(*pgd), 0);
-	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-	pgd_clear(pgd);
-	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static void __meminit
 remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		 bool direct)
@@ -913,7 +892,6 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 	unsigned long addr;
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
-	bool pgd_changed = false;
 
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -924,13 +902,8 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 
 		pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
 		remove_pud_table(pud, addr, next, direct);
-		if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd))
-			pgd_changed = true;
 	}
 
-	if (pgd_changed)
-		sync_global_pgds(start, end - 1, 1);
-
 	flush_tlb_all();
 }