linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64/mm: Fixes and cleanups for do_page

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Date:   Wed, 29 May 2019 18:29:06 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] arm64/mm: Fixes and cleanups for do_page_fault()



On 05/29/2019 06:11 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Anshuman,
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 06:04:41PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> This series contains some fixes and cleanups for page fault handling in
>> do_page_fault(). This has been boot tested on arm64 platform along with
>> some stress test but just build tested on others.
> 
> These all seem to be cleanups, which is fine, but I just wanted to make
> sure I'm not missing something that should be aiming for 5.2. Are there
> actually fixes in this series?

The following one might qualify (I would not insist though) but right now
this is not very problematic.

- arm64/mm: Drop mmap_sem before calling __do_kernel_fault() 

> 
> (in future, it's best to post fixes separately so I don't miss them)

Sure will do.