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authorJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>2020-06-02 07:52:40 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-02 20:59:12 +0300
commit7f0a002b5a21302d9f4b29ba83c96cd433ff3769 (patch)
tree31b8e0998e5f29799b8d6912924ee46d53d087b2 /arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
parent73f693c3a705756032c2863bfb37570276902d7d (diff)
downloadlinux-7f0a002b5a21302d9f4b29ba83c96cd433ff3769.tar.xz
x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting
Remove fault handling on vmalloc areas, as the vmalloc code now takes care of synchronizing changes to all page-tables in the system. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515140023.25469-8-joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h23
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 0e059b73437b..9f69cc497f4b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -12,27 +12,6 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to_asm(struct task_struct *prev,
__visible struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next);
-/* This runs runs on the previous thread's stack. */
-static inline void prepare_switch_to(struct task_struct *next)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK
- /*
- * If we switch to a stack that has a top-level paging entry
- * that is not present in the current mm, the resulting #PF will
- * will be promoted to a double-fault and we'll panic. Probe
- * the new stack now so that vmalloc_fault can fix up the page
- * tables if needed. This can only happen if we use a stack
- * in vmap space.
- *
- * We assume that the stack is aligned so that it never spans
- * more than one top-level paging entry.
- *
- * To minimize cache pollution, just follow the stack pointer.
- */
- READ_ONCE(*(unsigned char *)next->thread.sp);
-#endif
-}
-
asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
/*
@@ -67,8 +46,6 @@ struct fork_frame {
#define switch_to(prev, next, last) \
do { \
- prepare_switch_to(next); \
- \
((last) = __switch_to_asm((prev), (next))); \
} while (0)