Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] Fix issues with huge mapping in ioremap

From: Kani, Toshi
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 10:38:19 EST


On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 14:18 +0530, Chintan Pandya wrote:
> Note: I was working on these patches for quite sometime
> and realized that Toshi Kani has shared some patches
> addressing the same isssue with subject
> "[PATCH 0/2] fix memory leak / panic in ioremap huge pages".
> I've taken slightly different approach here, so sending
> to the list, finally.

Hi Chintan,

Do you have any issue in my patchset? If so, can you please comment on
them? It complicates the thing when you send a different approach
without telling why a different approach is needed. Your approach
purges TLB after updating pmd/pud, which I think is broken. Can you
work on top of my patchset and properly implement pXd_free_pte_page()
for arm64? I will send out my v2 today.

Thanks,
-Toshi