From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86/mm: drop order parameter from free_pagetable()
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:15:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e57dc812-8ada-4bed-9d6d-cb9a6dc5e9ea@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260708-bootmem_info_part2-v1-1-156ce4986598@kernel.org>
> /* free a pte table */
> - free_pagetable(pmd_page(*pmd), 0);
> + free_pagetable(pmd_page(*pmd));
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> pmd_clear(pmd);
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> @@ -1078,7 +1075,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, pud_t *pud)
> }
>
> /* free a pmd table */
> - free_pagetable(pud_page(*pud), 0);
> + free_pagetable(pud_page(*pud));
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> pud_clear(pud);
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> @@ -1096,7 +1093,7 @@ static void __meminit free_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, p4d_t *p4d)
> }
>
> /* free a pud table */
> - free_pagetable(p4d_page(*p4d), 0);
> + free_pagetable(p4d_page(*p4d));
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> p4d_clear(p4d);
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
>
Sashiko raises some pre-existing things around use-after free that I will just
ignore. We don't expect anybody to walk pages tables we are tearing down here,
and we'd have to wait for the TLB flush to get this right. And I don't see the
need to.
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 14:10 [PATCH 00/10] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2) David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86/mm: drop order parameter from free_pagetable() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 14:22 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-08 15:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-07-09 2:32 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: provide free_reserved_pages(), removing x86 variant David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 15:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 6:19 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 03/10] s390/mm: use free_reserved_pages() in vmem_free_pages() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 6:12 ` Heiko Carstens
2026-07-09 6:21 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:10 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm/bootmem_info: allow calling free_bootmem_page() on pages without a bootmem_type David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 14:53 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-09 6:23 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86/mm: stop marking vmemmap as SECTION_INFO David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 15:10 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-08 15:20 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86/mm: stop marking page tables as MIX_SECTION_INFO David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 15:24 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-08 15:27 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86/mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-08 15:38 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm/hugetlb_vmemmap: remove bootmem_info leftovers David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 6:26 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm/sparse: remove bootmem_info.h include David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 6:26 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 14:11 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm/bootmem_info: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-09 6:27 ` Muchun Song
2026-07-08 21:24 ` [PATCH 00/10] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2) Andrew Morton
2026-07-09 9:36 ` Mike Rapoport
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