From: Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:42:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11cad2be-9402-4d45-8d2b-c92d8962edfc@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecee3200-c8e2-47ec-a219-c88e8e905b32@intel.com>
On 10/15/25 23:55, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> Only [7/7] has acc:stable, even though that patch is not at all
>>> backportable. Please give some thought and suggestions regarding
>>> whether you think we should backport this into earlier kernels.
>> Yes. We should backport this series to stable kernels.
>>
>>> If "yes" then the size and scope of the series looks problematic. Is
>>> it possible to put together something simple and expedient just to plug
>>> the hole in older kernels?
>> Squashing some patches is one way. But would it be workable to backport
>> this series manually? Say, could we send a pull request to the stable
>> mailing list after this series has landed?
> I honestly think we should just disable SVA in old kernels at compile
> time, or at least default it to be disabled at runtime. That's the
> simplest thing.
>
> The other alternative is to have arch_vmap_pmd_supported() return false
> when SVA is active, or maybe when it's supported on the platform.
>
> Either of those are 10-ish lines of code and easy to backport.
Hi iommu folks, any insights on this?
Thanks,
baolu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-17 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-14 13:04 [PATCH v6 0/7] Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 1/7] mm: Add a ptdesc flag to mark kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-16 19:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 2/7] mm: Actually mark kernel page table pages Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 3/7] x86/mm: Use 'ptdesc' when freeing PMD pages Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 23:19 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-15 5:19 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-16 19:33 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 4/7] mm: Introduce pure page table freeing function Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 5/7] x86/mm: Use pagetable_free() Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 6/7] mm: Introduce deferred freeing for kernel page tables Lu Baolu
2025-10-16 19:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-17 1:29 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-14 13:04 ` [PATCH v6 7/7] iommu/sva: Invalidate stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space Lu Baolu
2025-10-14 20:59 ` [syzbot ci] Re: Fix " syzbot ci
2025-10-15 16:25 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-16 8:00 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-17 17:05 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-20 5:34 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-20 14:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-10-15 0:43 ` [PATCH v6 0/7] " Andrew Morton
2025-10-15 5:38 ` Baolu Lu
2025-10-15 15:55 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 1:42 ` Baolu Lu [this message]
2025-10-17 14:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 17:28 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:31 ` Dave Hansen
2025-10-17 17:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-17 18:26 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2025-10-22 5:06 ` Baolu Lu
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