Patch "x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-implement-free-pmd-pte-page-interfaces.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 28ee90fe6048fa7b7ceaeb8831c0e4e454a4cf89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:17:24 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces

From: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>

commit 28ee90fe6048fa7b7ceaeb8831c0e4e454a4cf89 upstream.

Implement pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() on x86, which
clear a given pud/pmd entry and free up lower level page table(s).

The address range associated with the pud/pmd entry must have been
purged by INVLPG.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180314180155.19492-3-toshi.kani@hpe.com
Fixes: e61ce6ade404e ("mm: change ioremap to set up huge I/O mappings")
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Reported-by: Lei Li <lious.lilei@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -676,7 +676,22 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
  */
 int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
 {
-	return pud_none(*pud);
+	pmd_t *pmd;
+	int i;
+
+	if (pud_none(*pud))
+		return 1;
+
+	pmd = (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++)
+		if (!pmd_free_pte_page(&pmd[i]))
+			return 0;
+
+	pud_clear(pud);
+	free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
+
+	return 1;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -688,6 +703,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
  */
 int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
-	return pmd_none(*pmd);
+	pte_t *pte;
+
+	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+		return 1;
+
+	pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+	pmd_clear(pmd);
+	free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+
+	return 1;
 }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from toshi.kani@hpe.com are

queue-4.4/mm-vmalloc-add-interfaces-to-free-unmapped-page-table.patch
queue-4.4/x86-mm-implement-free-pmd-pte-page-interfaces.patch