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<title>Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-3.18-take-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm</title>
<updated>2014-10-18T21:32:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-18T21:32:31+00:00</published>
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Pull second batch of changes for KVM/{arm,arm64} from Marc Zyngier:
 "The most obvious thing is the sizeable MMU changes to support 48bit
  VAs on arm64.

  Summary:

   - support for 48bit IPA and VA (EL2)
   - a number of fixes for devices mapped into guests
   - yet another VGIC fix for BE
   - a fix for CPU hotplug
   - a few compile fixes (disabled VGIC, strict mm checks)"

[ I'm pulling directly from Marc at the request of Paolo Bonzini, whose
  backpack was stolen at Düsseldorf airport and will do new keys and
  rebuild his web of trust.    - Linus ]

* tag 'kvm-arm-for-3.18-take-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm:
  arm/arm64: KVM: Fix BE accesses to GICv2 EISR and ELRSR regs
  arm: kvm: STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS fix for user_mem_abort
  arm/arm64: KVM: Ensure memslots are within KVM_PHYS_SIZE
  arm64: KVM: Implement 48 VA support for KVM EL2 and Stage-2
  arm/arm64: KVM: map MMIO regions at creation time
  arm64: kvm: define PAGE_S2_DEVICE as read-only by default
  ARM: kvm: define PAGE_S2_DEVICE as read-only by default
  arm/arm64: KVM: add 'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap
  arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()
  arm/arm64: KVM: use __GFP_ZERO not memset() to get zeroed pages
  ARM: KVM: fix vgic-disabled build
  arm: kvm: fix CPU hotplug
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Pull second batch of changes for KVM/{arm,arm64} from Marc Zyngier:
 "The most obvious thing is the sizeable MMU changes to support 48bit
  VAs on arm64.

  Summary:

   - support for 48bit IPA and VA (EL2)
   - a number of fixes for devices mapped into guests
   - yet another VGIC fix for BE
   - a fix for CPU hotplug
   - a few compile fixes (disabled VGIC, strict mm checks)"

[ I'm pulling directly from Marc at the request of Paolo Bonzini, whose
  backpack was stolen at Düsseldorf airport and will do new keys and
  rebuild his web of trust.    - Linus ]

* tag 'kvm-arm-for-3.18-take-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm:
  arm/arm64: KVM: Fix BE accesses to GICv2 EISR and ELRSR regs
  arm: kvm: STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS fix for user_mem_abort
  arm/arm64: KVM: Ensure memslots are within KVM_PHYS_SIZE
  arm64: KVM: Implement 48 VA support for KVM EL2 and Stage-2
  arm/arm64: KVM: map MMIO regions at creation time
  arm64: kvm: define PAGE_S2_DEVICE as read-only by default
  ARM: kvm: define PAGE_S2_DEVICE as read-only by default
  arm/arm64: KVM: add 'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap
  arm/arm64: KVM: fix potential NULL dereference in user_mem_abort()
  arm/arm64: KVM: use __GFP_ZERO not memset() to get zeroed pages
  ARM: KVM: fix vgic-disabled build
  arm: kvm: fix CPU hotplug
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<entry>
<title>arm64: KVM: Implement 48 VA support for KVM EL2 and Stage-2</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T12:48:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoffer Dall</name>
<email>christoffer.dall@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T10:14:28+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the necessary support for all host kernel PGSIZE and
VA_SPACE configuration options for both EL2 and the Stage-2 page tables.

However, for 40bit and 42bit PARange systems, the architecture mandates
that VTCR_EL2.SL0 is maximum 1, resulting in fewer levels of stage-2
pagge tables than levels of host kernel page tables.  At the same time,
systems with a PARange &gt; 42bit, we limit the IPA range by always setting
VTCR_EL2.T0SZ to 24.

To solve the situation with different levels of page tables for Stage-2
translation than the host kernel page tables, we allocate a dummy PGD
with pointers to our actual inital level Stage-2 page table, in order
for us to reuse the kernel pgtable manipulation primitives.  Reproducing
all these in KVM does not look pretty and unnecessarily complicates the
32-bit side.

Systems with a PARange &lt; 40bits are not yet supported.

 [ I have reworked this patch from its original form submitted by
   Jungseok to take the architecture constraints into consideration.
   There were too many changes from the original patch for me to
   preserve the authorship.  Thanks to Catalin Marinas for his help in
   figuring out a good solution to this challenge.  I have also fixed
   various bugs and missing error code handling from the original
   patch. - Christoffer ]

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jungseoklee85@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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This patch adds the necessary support for all host kernel PGSIZE and
VA_SPACE configuration options for both EL2 and the Stage-2 page tables.

However, for 40bit and 42bit PARange systems, the architecture mandates
that VTCR_EL2.SL0 is maximum 1, resulting in fewer levels of stage-2
pagge tables than levels of host kernel page tables.  At the same time,
systems with a PARange &gt; 42bit, we limit the IPA range by always setting
VTCR_EL2.T0SZ to 24.

To solve the situation with different levels of page tables for Stage-2
translation than the host kernel page tables, we allocate a dummy PGD
with pointers to our actual inital level Stage-2 page table, in order
for us to reuse the kernel pgtable manipulation primitives.  Reproducing
all these in KVM does not look pretty and unnecessarily complicates the
32-bit side.

Systems with a PARange &lt; 40bits are not yet supported.

 [ I have reworked this patch from its original form submitted by
   Jungseok to take the architecture constraints into consideration.
   There were too many changes from the original patch for me to
   preserve the authorship.  Thanks to Catalin Marinas for his help in
   figuring out a good solution to this challenge.  I have also fixed
   various bugs and missing error code handling from the original
   patch. - Christoffer ]

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee &lt;jungseoklee85@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'locking-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T13:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T13:48:00+00:00</published>
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Pull arch atomic cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is a series kept separate from the main locking tree, which
  cleans up and improves various details in the atomics type handling:

   - Remove the unused atomic_or_long() method

   - Consolidate and compress atomic ops implementations between
     architectures, to reduce linecount and to make it easier to add new
     ops.

   - Rewrite generic atomic support to only require cmpxchg() from an
     architecture - generate all other methods from that"

* 'locking-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  locking,arch: Use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of cast to volatile in atomic_read()
  locking, mips: Fix atomics
  locking, sparc64: Fix atomics
  locking,arch: Rewrite generic atomic support
  locking,arch,xtensa: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,sparc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,sh: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,powerpc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,parisc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,mn10300: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,mips: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,metag: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,m68k: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,m32r: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,ia64: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,hexagon: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,cris: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,avr32: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,arm64: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,arm: Fold atomic_ops
  ...
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Pull arch atomic cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is a series kept separate from the main locking tree, which
  cleans up and improves various details in the atomics type handling:

   - Remove the unused atomic_or_long() method

   - Consolidate and compress atomic ops implementations between
     architectures, to reduce linecount and to make it easier to add new
     ops.

   - Rewrite generic atomic support to only require cmpxchg() from an
     architecture - generate all other methods from that"

* 'locking-arch-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  locking,arch: Use ACCESS_ONCE() instead of cast to volatile in atomic_read()
  locking, mips: Fix atomics
  locking, sparc64: Fix atomics
  locking,arch: Rewrite generic atomic support
  locking,arch,xtensa: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,sparc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,sh: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,powerpc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,parisc: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,mn10300: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,mips: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,metag: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,m68k: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,m32r: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,ia64: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,hexagon: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,cris: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,avr32: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,arm64: Fold atomic_ops
  locking,arch,arm: Fold atomic_ops
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-v3.18' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T20:56:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T20:56:08+00:00</published>
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Pull dma-mapping update from Marek Szyprowski:
 "Provide the dma write coherent api (available previously on ARM
  architecture) for all other architectures, which use dma_ops-based dma
  mapping implementation.

  This lets one to use the same code in the device drivers regardless of
  the selected architecture"

* 'for-v3.18' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
  dma-mapping: Provide write-combine allocations
  s390: Implement dma_{alloc,free}_attrs()
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Pull dma-mapping update from Marek Szyprowski:
 "Provide the dma write coherent api (available previously on ARM
  architecture) for all other architectures, which use dma_ops-based dma
  mapping implementation.

  This lets one to use the same code in the device drivers regardless of
  the selected architecture"

* 'for-v3.18' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
  dma-mapping: Provide write-combine allocations
  s390: Implement dma_{alloc,free}_attrs()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: kvm: define PAGE_S2_DEVICE as read-only by default</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T11:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T21:56:19+00:00</published>
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Now that we support read-only memslots, we need to make sure that
pass-through device mappings are not mapped writable if the guest
has requested them to be read-only. The existing implementation
already honours this by calling kvm_set_s2pte_writable() on the new
pte in case of writable mappings, so all we need to do is define
the default pgprot_t value used for devices to be PTE_S2_RDONLY.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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Now that we support read-only memslots, we need to make sure that
pass-through device mappings are not mapped writable if the guest
has requested them to be read-only. The existing implementation
already honours this by calling kvm_set_s2pte_writable() on the new
pte in case of writable mappings, so all we need to do is define
the default pgprot_t value used for devices to be PTE_S2_RDONLY.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>arm/arm64: KVM: add 'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T11:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-17T21:56:18+00:00</published>
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Add support for read-only MMIO passthrough mappings by adding a
'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap. For the moment,
mappings will be read-write even if 'writable' is false, but once
the definition of PAGE_S2_DEVICE gets changed, those mappings will
be created read-only.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
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Add support for read-only MMIO passthrough mappings by adding a
'writable' parameter to kvm_phys_addr_ioremap. For the moment,
mappings will be read-write even if 'writable' is false, but once
the definition of PAGE_S2_DEVICE gets changed, those mappings will
be created read-only.

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-10T02:26:14+00:00</published>
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - part of OCFS2 (review is laggy again)
 - procfs
 - slab
 - all of MM
 - zram, zbud
 - various other random things: arch, filesystems.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (164 commits)
  nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in &lt;asm/sections.h&gt;
  include/linux/screen_info.h: remove unused ORIG_* macros
  kernel/sys.c: compat sysinfo syscall: fix undefined behavior
  kernel/sys.c: whitespace fixes
  acct: eliminate compile warning
  kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo()
  include/linux/blkdev.h: use NULL instead of zero
  include/linux/kernel.h: deduplicate code implementing clamp* macros
  include/linux/kernel.h: rewrite min3, max3 and clamp using min and max
  alpha: use Kbuild logic to include &lt;asm-generic/sections.h&gt;
  frv: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error
  zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist
  zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking
  mm/zsmalloc.c: correct comment for fullness group computation
  zram: use notify_free to account all free notifications
  zram: report maximum used memory
  zram: zram memory size limitation
  zsmalloc: change return value unit of zs_get_total_size_bytes
  zsmalloc: move pages_allocated to zs_pool
  ...
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - part of OCFS2 (review is laggy again)
 - procfs
 - slab
 - all of MM
 - zram, zbud
 - various other random things: arch, filesystems.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (164 commits)
  nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in &lt;asm/sections.h&gt;
  include/linux/screen_info.h: remove unused ORIG_* macros
  kernel/sys.c: compat sysinfo syscall: fix undefined behavior
  kernel/sys.c: whitespace fixes
  acct: eliminate compile warning
  kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo()
  include/linux/blkdev.h: use NULL instead of zero
  include/linux/kernel.h: deduplicate code implementing clamp* macros
  include/linux/kernel.h: rewrite min3, max3 and clamp using min and max
  alpha: use Kbuild logic to include &lt;asm-generic/sections.h&gt;
  frv: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
  frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error
  zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist
  zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking
  mm/zsmalloc.c: correct comment for fullness group computation
  zram: use notify_free to account all free notifications
  zram: report maximum used memory
  zram: zram memory size limitation
  zsmalloc: change return value unit of zs_get_total_size_bytes
  zsmalloc: move pages_allocated to zs_pool
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: mm: enable RCU fast_gup</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:20+00:00</published>
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Activate the RCU fast_gup for ARM.  We also need to force THP splits to
broadcast an IPI s.t.  we block in the fast_gup page walker.  As THP
splits are comparatively rare, this should not lead to a noticeable
performance degradation.

Some pre-requisite functions pud_write and pud_page are also added.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Activate the RCU fast_gup for ARM.  We also need to force THP splits to
broadcast an IPI s.t.  we block in the fast_gup page walker.  As THP
splits are comparatively rare, this should not lead to a noticeable
performance degradation.

Some pre-requisite functions pud_write and pud_page are also added.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm: mm: enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:18+00:00</published>
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In order to implement fast_get_user_pages we need to ensure that the page
table walker is protected from page table pages being freed from under it.

This patch enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE, any page table pages belonging to
address spaces with multiple users will be call_rcu_sched freed.  Meaning
that disabling interrupts will block the free and protect the fast gup
page walker.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In order to implement fast_get_user_pages we need to ensure that the page
table walker is protected from page table pages being freed from under it.

This patch enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE, any page table pages belonging to
address spaces with multiple users will be call_rcu_sched freed.  Meaning
that disabling interrupts will block the free and protect the fast gup
page walker.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>arm: mm: introduce special ptes for LPAE</title>
<updated>2014-10-10T02:26:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Capper</name>
<email>steve.capper@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-09T22:29:16+00:00</published>
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We need a mechanism to tag ptes as being special, this indicates that no
attempt should be made to access the underlying struct page * associated
with the pte.  This is used by the fast_gup when operating on ptes as it
has no means to access VMAs (that also contain this information)
locklessly.

The L_PTE_SPECIAL bit is already allocated for LPAE, this patch modifies
pte_special and pte_mkspecial to make use of it, and defines
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL.

This patch also excludes special ptes from the icache/dcache sync logic.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We need a mechanism to tag ptes as being special, this indicates that no
attempt should be made to access the underlying struct page * associated
with the pte.  This is used by the fast_gup when operating on ptes as it
has no means to access VMAs (that also contain this information)
locklessly.

The L_PTE_SPECIAL bit is already allocated for LPAE, this patch modifies
pte_special and pte_mkspecial to make use of it, and defines
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL.

This patch also excludes special ptes from the icache/dcache sync logic.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dann Frazier &lt;dann.frazier@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;rmk@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoffer Dall &lt;christoffer.dall@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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