linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

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Message-Id: <200801282159.19616.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:59:18 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>,
	Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@...umbus.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

On Monday, 28 of January 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >>>>>  /*
> >>>>>   * Swap suspend & friends need this for resume because things like the intel-agp
> >>>>>   * driver might have split up a kernel 4MB mapping.
> >>>>>   */
> >>>>> -char __nosavedata swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE]
> >>>>> +char swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE]
> >>>> thanks, applied.
> >> Sorry, this is subtle and I've overlooked it before.
> >>
> >> (I thought you were only changing ifdef).
> >>
> >> Now you memcpy() over pg_dir when that pgdir is in use during swsusp
> >> resume.
> > 
> > It is not.  swsusp hasn't been using swsusp_pg_dir for several months.
> > Hence, the patch. :-)
> > 
> >> Granted, you memcpy() with same data that already are there, 
> >> but it may still do some funny effects.
> >>
> >> Hmm, but same argument applies to lower levels of paging in 64-bit and
> >> PAE cases, and we still do that memcpy-over-active-pagetables there...
> >> :-(.
> > 
> > Actually, no.  We only do that with the kernel code mapping which should be
> > safe as long as TLBs are not flushed (and they aren't).
> > 
> 
> Okay... does that in any way affect using the kernel code mapping 
> synchronization code to maintain a set of trampoline pagetables?

I really don't think so.

Rafael
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