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author | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2025-04-14 10:32:35 -0700 |
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committer | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> | 2025-04-17 10:39:25 -0700 |
commit | b0cc4d19f198cdfd1b58c8f5536670d1dc68cbbd (patch) | |
tree | 8cc9225071e1b2e4e6c92c98cb7f6f8f2a16500d /scripts/lib/kdoc | |
parent | 780f97e309302fdee05b31c91a4dc81ded4c3702 (diff) |
x86/mm: Always "broadcast" PMD setting operations
Kernel PMDs can either be shared across processes or private to a
process. On 64-bit, they are always shared. 32-bit non-PAE hardware
does not have PMDs, but the kernel logically squishes them into the
PGD and treats them as private. Here are the four cases:
64-bit: Shared
32-bit: non-PAE: Private
32-bit: PAE+ PTI: Private
32-bit: PAE+noPTI: Shared
Note that 32-bit is all "Private" except for PAE+noPTI being an
oddball. The 32-bit+PAE+noPTI case will be made like the rest of
32-bit shortly.
But until that can be done, temporarily treat the 32-bit+PAE+noPTI
case as Private. This will do unnecessary walks across pgd_list and
unnecessary PTE setting but should be otherwise harmless.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250414173235.F63F50D1%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
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