[PATCH fixes] riscv: mm: Do not call pmd dtor on vmemmap page table teardown
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Wed Dec 11 14:33:00 PST 2024
Hello:
This patch was applied to riscv/linux.git (fixes)
by Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:12:02 +0100 you wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn at rivosinc.com>
>
> The vmemmap's, which is used for RV64 with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, page
> tables are populated using pmd (page middle directory) hugetables.
> However, the pmd allocation is not using the generic mechanism used by
> the VMA code (e.g. pmd_alloc()), or the RISC-V specific
> create_pgd_mapping()/alloc_pmd_late(). Instead, the vmemmap page table
> code allocates a page, and calls vmemmap_set_pmd(). This results in
> that the pmd ctor is *not* called, nor would it make sense to do so.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [fixes] riscv: mm: Do not call pmd dtor on vmemmap page table teardown
https://git.kernel.org/riscv/c/21f1b85c8912
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