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From: "joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Kani, Toshi" <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 11:02:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180428090217.n2l3w4vobmtkvz6k@8bytes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524839460.2693.531.camel@hpe.com>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:31:51PM +0000, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> So, we can add the step 2 on top of this patch.
>  1. Clear pud/pmd entry.
>  2. System wide TLB flush <-- TO BE ADDED BY NEW PATCH
>  3. Free its underlining pmd/pte page.

This still lacks the page-table synchronization and will thus not fix
the BUG_ON being triggered.

> We do not need to revert this patch.  We can make the above change I
> mentioned.

Please note that we are not in the merge window anymore and that any fix
needs to be simple and obviously correct.


Thanks,

	Joerg

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-28  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-14 18:01 [PATCH v2 0/2] fix memory leak / panic in ioremap huge pages Toshi Kani
2018-03-14 18:01 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/vmalloc: Add interfaces to free unmapped page table Toshi Kani
2018-03-14 22:38   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-15 14:27     ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-14 18:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces Toshi Kani
2018-03-15  7:39   ` Chintan Pandya
2018-03-15 14:51     ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-26 14:19   ` Joerg Roedel
2018-04-26 16:21     ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-26 17:23       ` joro
2018-04-26 17:49         ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-26 20:07           ` joro
2018-04-26 22:30             ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-27  7:37               ` joro
2018-04-27 11:39                 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-27 11:46                   ` joro
2018-04-27 11:52                 ` Chintan Pandya
2018-04-27 12:48                   ` joro
2018-04-27 13:42                     ` Chintan Pandya
2018-04-27 14:31                 ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-28  9:02                   ` joro [this message]
2018-04-28 20:54                     ` Kani, Toshi
2018-04-30  7:30                       ` Chintan Pandya
2018-04-30 13:43                         ` Kani, Toshi

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