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Bharata B Rao d6d6ebfc5d powerpc/mm/radix: Remove split_kernel_mapping()

We split the page table mapping on memory unplug if the
linear range was mapped with huge page mapping (for ex: 1G)
The page table splitting code has a few issues:

1. Recursive locking
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Memory unplug path takes cpu_hotplug_lock and calls stop_machine()
for splitting the mappings. However stop_machine() takes
cpu_hotplug_lock again causing deadlock.

2. BUG: sleeping function called from in_atomic() context
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Memory unplug path (remove_pagetable) takes init_mm.page_table_lock
spinlock and later calls stop_machine() which does wait_for_completion()

3. Bad unlock unbalance
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Memory unplug path takes init_mm.page_table_lock spinlock and calls
stop_machine(). The stop_machine thread function runs in a different
thread context (migration thread) which tries to release and reaquire
ptl. Releasing ptl from a different thread than which acquired it
causes bad unlock unbalance.

These problems can be avoided if we avoid mapping hot-plugged memory
with 1G mapping, thereby removing the need for splitting them during
unplug. The kernel always make sure the minimum unplug request is
SUBSECTION_SIZE for device memory and SECTION_SIZE for regular memory.

In preparation for such a change remove page table splitting support.

This essentially is a revert of
commit 4dd5f8a99e791 ("powerpc/mm/radix: Split linear mapping on hot-unplug")

Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200709131925.922266-4-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com

2020-07-20 22:57:56 +10:00

alpha

Kbuild updates for v5.8 (2nd)

2020-06-13 13:29:16 -07:00

arc

treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help'

2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00

arm

maccess: make get_kernel_nofault() check for minimal type compatibility

2020-06-18 12:10:37 -07:00

arm64

Kbuild fixes for v5.8