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From: "Brendan Jackman" <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
To: "Brendan Jackman" <jackmanb@google.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
	"Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/mm: some cleanups for pagetable setup code
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 12:40:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DITGSSHSBTVI.2R7LUA9N63LNI@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260503-x86-init-cleanup-v2-0-bb690bd2477c@google.com>

Hi folks,

Can someone take a look at this?

Sashiko claims to have pointed out some pre-existing issues [0]:

- No synchronisation for pfn_mapped. Maybe this could be fixed by
  spraying some get_online_mems() or something? Fixing this individual
  bug in isolation seems a bit pointless though, whenever I look into
  data structures that get modified during hotplug I get the feeling the
  synchronisation needs a pretty wide overhaul. Maybe someone else feels
  differently...

- Points out that phys_p4d_init() operates on a single P4D table but
  doesn't seem to check that the addresses it's operating on are within
  a single PGD.

  I'm pretty sure I noticed this before but assumed it was impossible
  for the range to span multiple PGDs here. But now I look more
  carefully I see that's not true and I think Sashiko is right here.

  It also points out that the paddr >= paddr_end check looks
  unreachable, which sounds plausible but I haven't thought it through
  properly.

Happy to fix the latter as an additional patch but I think the rest of
this is ready for review regardless.

[0]: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260503-x86-init-cleanup-v2-0-bb690bd2477c%40google.com

Cheers,
Brendan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-27 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-03 13:04 [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/mm: some cleanups for pagetable setup code Brendan Jackman
2026-05-03 13:04 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] x86/mm: drop unused return from init_memory_mapping() Brendan Jackman
2026-06-02 21:30   ` Dave Hansen
2026-05-03 13:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] x86/mm: simplify calculation of max_pfn_mapped Brendan Jackman
2026-06-02 21:39   ` Dave Hansen
2026-06-03 10:20     ` Brendan Jackman
2026-05-03 13:04 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] x86/mm: drop unused returns from direct map setup functions Brendan Jackman
2026-06-02 21:40   ` Dave Hansen
2026-05-27 12:40 ` Brendan Jackman [this message]
2026-06-02 21:53 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] x86/mm: some cleanups for pagetable setup code Dave Hansen

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