From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: catalin.marinas@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, toshi.kani@hpe.com,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 3/3] arm64: Implement page table free interfaces
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 16:44:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180606154447.GG6631@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1528268481-19299-4-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org>
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:31:21PM +0530, Chintan Pandya wrote:
> arm64 requires break-before-make. Originally, before
> setting up new pmd/pud entry for huge mapping, in few
> cases, the modifying pmd/pud entry was still valid
> and pointing to next level page table as we only
> clear off leaf PTE in unmap leg.
>
> a) This was resulting into stale entry in TLBs (as few
> TLBs also cache intermediate mapping for performance
> reasons)
> b) Also, modifying pmd/pud was the only reference to
> next level page table and it was getting lost without
> freeing it. So, page leaks were happening.
>
> Implement pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() to
> enforce BBM and also free the leaking page tables.
>
> Implementation requires,
> 1) Clearing off the current pud/pmd entry
> 2) Invalidation of TLB
> 3) Freeing of the un-used next level page tables
>
> Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora.org>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Thanks, I think this looks really good now:
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-06 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-06 7:01 [PATCH v13 0/3] Fix issues with huge mapping in ioremap for ARM64 Chintan Pandya
2018-06-06 7:01 ` [PATCH v13 1/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr Chintan Pandya
2018-06-06 15:44 ` Will Deacon
2018-06-06 7:01 ` [PATCH v13 2/3] arm64: tlbflush: Introduce __flush_tlb_kernel_pgtable Chintan Pandya
2018-06-06 15:44 ` Will Deacon
2018-06-06 7:01 ` [PATCH v13 3/3] arm64: Implement page table free interfaces Chintan Pandya
2018-06-06 15:44 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-09-20 17:25 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-09-21 9:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-06-06 15:45 ` [PATCH v13 0/3] Fix issues with huge mapping in ioremap for ARM64 Will Deacon
2018-06-07 8:03 ` Chintan Pandya
2018-06-12 6:47 ` Chintan Pandya
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