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Merge tag 'x86-urgent-2022-05-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 fix from Thomas Gleixner: "A single fix for the handling of unpopulated sub-pmd spaces. The copy & pasta from the corresponding s390 code screwed up the address calculation for marking the sub-pmd ranges via memset by omitting the ALIGN_DOWN() to calculate the proper start address. It's a mystery why this code is not generic and shared because there is nothing architecture specific in there, but that's too intrusive for a backportable fix" * tag 'x86-urgent-2022-05-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mm: Fix marking of unused sub-pmd ranges

Linus Torvalds committed 4 years ago

Commit 79dc4fc2 parents 990e798 280abe11 file · +3 −2Browse files

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arch/x86/mm/init_64.c+3−2
@@ -902,6 +902,8 @@ static void __meminit vmemmap_use_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end · 901 unmodified lines
902 902
903static void __meminit vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)903static void __meminit vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
904{904{
905 const unsigned long page = ALIGN_DOWN(start, PMD_SIZE);
906
905 vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd();907 vmemmap_flush_unused_pmd();
906 908
907 /*909 /*
@@ -914,8 +916,7 @@ static void __meminit vmemmap_use_new_sub_pmd(unsigned long start, unsigned long · 6 unmodified lines
914 * Mark with PAGE_UNUSED the unused parts of the new memmap range916 * Mark with PAGE_UNUSED the unused parts of the new memmap range
915 */917 */
916 if (!IS_ALIGNED(start, PMD_SIZE))918 if (!IS_ALIGNED(start, PMD_SIZE))
917 memset((void *)start, PAGE_UNUSED,919 memset((void *)page, PAGE_UNUSED, start - page);
918 start - ALIGN_DOWN(start, PMD_SIZE));
919 920
920 /*921 /*
921 * We want to avoid memset(PAGE_UNUSED) when populating the vmemmap of922 * We want to avoid memset(PAGE_UNUSED) when populating the vmemmap of