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    x86/mm: Disable ioremap free page handling on x86-PAE · f967db0b
    Toshi Kani authored
    ioremap() supports pmd mappings on x86-PAE.  However, kernel's pmd
    tables are not shared among processes on x86-PAE.  Therefore, any
    update to sync'd pmd entries need re-syncing.  Freeing a pte page
    also leads to a vmalloc fault and hits the BUG_ON in vmalloc_sync_one().
    
    Disable free page handling on x86-PAE.  pud_free_pmd_page() and
    pmd_free_pte_page() simply return 0 if a given pud/pmd entry is present.
    This assures that ioremap() does not update sync'd pmd entries at the
    cost of falling back to pte mappings.
    
    Fixes: 28ee90fe
    
     ("x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces")
    Reported-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarToshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: mhocko@suse.com
    Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
    Cc: hpa@zytor.com
    Cc: cpandya@codeaurora.org
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627141348.21777-2-toshi.kani@hpe.com
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