[merged mm-stable] mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for sh-X2
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
Subject: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE for sh-X2
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:09:43 +0100

Currently, non-x2 sh specifies CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE allowing
RCU page table freeing.

sh-X2 is problematic because it utilises slab-allocated PMD page tables,
and thus tlb_remove_ptdesc() cannot be used in these cases.

All other sh variants are fine as commit e3ecf7c7d082 ("mm: pgtable:
convert some architectures to use tlb_remove_ptdesc()") already converted
page table freeing to use tlb_remove_ptdesc(), which does so after an RCU
grace period when CONFIG_MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE is specified.

Resolve this issue by firstly specifying CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE
for sh-X2, so the arch can provide its own __tlb_remove_table()
implementation (called after the RCU grace period).

Then, convert __pmd_free_tlb() to tag the pointer to the PMD, and have
__tlb_remove_table() check this tag to determine whether to free via the
slab or to use pagetable_dtor_free().

This follows the pattern used by sparc64 as implemented in commit
4a0100f7546f ("sparc64: use RCU page table freeing").

Previously __pmd_free_tlb() freed PMD page tables immediately, before any
TLB flush IPI.  This seems to be a pre-existing bug, which this change
also resolves.

CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE is only specified for sh-X2, as setting
it disables CONFIG_PT_RECLAIM and causes __tlb_remove_table_one() to call
tlb_remove_table_sync_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() in turn, and this is not
necessary for other sh variants.

This forms part of an overall effort to switch every architecture to this
mode.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260925-rcu-pagetable-freeing-v5-8-31e91065fea4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <pjw@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
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Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
---

 arch/sh/Kconfig               |    3 ++-
 arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h |    6 +++++-
 arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c          |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h~mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2
+++ a/arch/sh/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -17,7 +17,11 @@ extern void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *m
 extern void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pudp, pmd_t *pmd);
 extern pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address);
 extern void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd);
-#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmdp, addr)		pmd_free((tlb)->mm, (pmdp))
+extern void __tlb_remove_table(void *table);
+
+/* PMDs are slab-allocated, tag so they are freed correctly. */
+#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmdp, addr)					\
+	tlb_remove_table((tlb), (void *)((unsigned long)(pmdp) | 1))
 #endif
 
 static inline void pmd_populate_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
--- a/arch/sh/Kconfig~mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2
+++ a/arch/sh/Kconfig
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ config SUPERH
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
 	select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
+	select HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE if X2TLB
 	select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ config SUPERH
 	select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
 	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
 	select LOCK_MM_AND_FIND_VMA
-	select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if MMU && !X2TLB
+	select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE if MMU
 	select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
 	select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
 	select NO_DMA if !MMU && !DMA_COHERENT
--- a/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c~mm-enable-mmu_gather_rcu_table_free-for-sh-x2
+++ a/arch/sh/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -56,4 +56,24 @@ void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_
 {
 	kmem_cache_free(pmd_cachep, pmd);
 }
+
+static void __tlb_remove_table_slab(void *table)
+{
+	kmem_cache_free(pmd_cachep, table);
+}
+
+static void __tlb_remove_table_pgtable(void *table)
+{
+	pagetable_dtor_free(table);
+}
+
+void __tlb_remove_table(void *table)
+{
+	const unsigned long addr = (unsigned long)table;
+
+	if (addr & 1)
+		__tlb_remove_table_slab((void *)(addr & ~1UL));
+	else
+		__tlb_remove_table_pgtable(table);
+}
 #endif /* PAGETABLE_LEVELS > 2 */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ljs@kernel.org are

mm-vma-fix-mmap_prepare-file-handling-remove-file_doesnt_need_get.patch
mm-vma-introduce-and-use-vma_can_merge.patch
mm-consistently-validate-vma-state-after-mmap-hooks.patch
mm-vma-ensure-mmap_prepare-doesnt-set-actions-on-a-mergeable-vma.patch
mm-make-map_kernel_pages_-internal-and-unexported.patch
mm-vma-tidy-up-map-kernel-pages-enum-values.patch
mm-add-mmap-action-for-discontiguous-kernel-page-mapping.patch
docs-filesystems-update-mmap_prepare-docs-for-discontig-kernel-pgs.patch
drivers-usb-mon-update-to-use-mmap_prepare-map-kernel-pages.patch
infiniband-update-hfi1-to-use-remap_vmalloc_range.patch
selinux-reject-writable-opens-of-policy-file-drop-mmap-shared-write-check.patch
alsa-pcm-use-vm_insert_page-to-map-pcm-status-page.patch
bpf-arena-mark-arena_map_mmap-mappings-vm_mixedmap.patch
mm-vma-add-vma_is_mm_managed-predicates.patch
mm-vma-only-allow-mmap-to-clear-vma_maywrite_bit-if-not-mm-managed.patch
mm-vma-add-and-use-vma__is_fixed_mapping.patch
scsi-sg-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-and-rework.patch
fbdev-defio-assert-fbinfo_virtfb-drop-vm_io-add-vm_mixedmap.patch
hsi-cmt_speech-convert-mmap-hook-to-mmap_prepare-refactor.patch
mm-gup-error-out-early-on-vma_mayread_bit-vmas.patch
uprobes-remove-vm_io-set-vm_mixedmap-for-mapped-kernel-pages.patch
mm-mlock-clear-vma_locked_mask-over-mmap-callback.patch
mm-mlock-eliminate-weird-vma_io_bit-abuse-and-simplify.patch
mm-vma-enforce-that-mm-managed-mappings-may-not-set-vma_io_bit.patch
mm-remove-vma_io_bit-check-in-vma_is_mm_managed.patch
mm-remove-hugetlb_inlineh.patch
mm-rename-is_vm_hugetlb_page-to-vma_is_hugetlb.patch
mm-drop-some-redundant-checks-around-hugetlb-vmas.patch
mm-madvise-update-is_valid_guard_vma-to-use-vma_can_merge.patch
mm-vma-introduce-vma_is_mm_backed.patch
mm-uffd-use-predicates-for-userfaultfd-checks.patch
mm-madvise-use-predicates-for-madvise-madv_dofork.patch
mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-usage-when-hugetlb-explicitly-tested.patch
mm-eliminate-vma_special_flags-check-in-lru_gen_look_around.patch
mm-avoid-use-of-vma_special_flags-in-migrate_vma_setup.patch
mm-eliminate-vm_special-vma_special_flags.patch
fuse-dax-do-not-set-vm_mixedmap.patch
mm-huge_memory-remove-vma_is_special_huge.patch
mm-vma-const-ify-vma_assert_stabilised-and-associated-functions.patch
mm-implement-and-use-vma_has_anon_rmap-silence-kcsan.patch
mm-update-comments-to-refer-to-anon-rmap-rather-than-anon_vma.patch
mm-vma-dont-remove-vma-from-rmap-if-pgoff-unchanged.patch