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arm: set the page table freeing ceiling to TASK_SIZE
authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:07:28 +0000 (15:07 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:22:52 +0000 (15:22 +1100)
commit2f0908076125c96b7d385bff5764ae39a0c80788
tree1c0e712dbe061de92b18ec834ede750d6496b637
parentd500e9aa777eb5711b69aab7d739b85c806b683c
arm: set the page table freeing ceiling to TASK_SIZE

ARM processors with LPAE enabled use 3 levels of page tables, with an
entry in the top level (pgd) covering 1GB of virtual space.  Because of
the branch relocation limitations on ARM, the loadable modules are mapped
16MB below PAGE_OFFSET, making the corresponding 1GB pgd shared between
kernel modules and user space.

If free_pgtables() is called with the default ceiling 0, free_pgd_range()
(and subsequently called functions) also frees the page table shared
between user space and kernel modules (which is normally handled by the
ARM-specific pgd_free() function).  This patch changes defines the ARM
USER_PGTABLES_CEILING to TASK_SIZE when CONFIG_ARM_LPAE is enabled.

Note that the pgd_free() function already checks the presence of the
shared pmd page allocated by pgd_alloc() and frees it, though with ceiling
0 this wasn't necessary.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h