Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/mm: remove pointless checks in vmalloc_fault

From: Kani, Toshi
Date: Wed Mar 14 2018 - 16:07:49 EST


On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 20:56 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 20:27 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Toshi Kani wrote:
> > >
> > > > vmalloc_fault() sets user's pgd or p4d from the kernel page table.
> > > > Once it's set, all tables underneath are identical. There is no point
> > > > of following the same page table with two separate pointers and makes
> > > > sure they see the same with BUG().
> > > >
> > > > Remove the pointless checks in vmalloc_fault(). Also rename the kernel
> > > > pgd/p4d pointers to pgd_k/p4d_k so that their names are consistent in
> > > > the file.
> > >
> > > I have no idea to which branch this might apply. The first patch applies
> > > cleanly on linus head, but this one fails in hunk #2 on everything I
> > > tried. Can you please check?
> >
> > Sorry for the trouble. The patches are based on linus head. I just tried
> > and they applied clean to me...
>
> Hmm. Looks like I tried on the wrong branch. Nevertheless, 1/2 is queued in
> urgent, but 2/2 will go through tip/x86/mm which already has changes in
> that area causing the patch to fail. I just merged x86/urgent into x86/mm
> and pushed it out. Can you please rebase 2/2 on top of that bracnh and
> resend ?

Yes, I will merge up 2/2 and resend.

Thanks,
-Toshi