linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr

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Message-ID: <20180629122358.GC17859@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 13:23:59 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@....com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr

Hi Toshi, Thomas,

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 04:13:22PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 16:56 +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 08:13:47AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > > From: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@...eaurora.org>
> > > 
> > > The following kernel panic was observed on ARM64 platform due to a stale
> > > TLB entry.
> > > 
> > >  1. ioremap with 4K size, a valid pte page table is set.
> > >  2. iounmap it, its pte entry is set to 0.
> > >  3. ioremap the same address with 2M size, update its pmd entry with
> > >     a new value.
> > >  4. CPU may hit an exception because the old pmd entry is still in TLB,
> > >     which leads to a kernel panic.
> > > 
> > > Commit b6bdb7517c3d ("mm/vmalloc: add interfaces to free unmapped page
> > > table") has addressed this panic by falling to pte mappings in the above
> > > case on ARM64.
> > > 
> > > To support pmd mappings in all cases, TLB purge needs to be performed
> > > in this case on ARM64.
> > > 
> > > Add a new arg, 'addr', to pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page()
> > > so that TLB purge can be added later in seprate patches.
> > 
> > So I acked v13 of Chintan's series posted here:
> > 
> > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2018-June/582953.html
> > 
> > any chance this lot could all be merged together, please?
> 
> Chintan's patch 2/3 and 3/3 apply cleanly on top of my series. Can you
> please coordinate with Thomas on the logistics?

Sure. I guess having this series on a common branch that I can pull into
arm64 and apply Chintan's other patches on top would work.

How does that sound?

Will