[PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm/64: Do not sync vmalloc/ioremap mappings

[Joerg Roedel]

From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>

Remove the code to sync the vmalloc and ioremap ranges for x86-64. The
page-table pages are all pre-allocated now so that synchronization is
no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@xxxxxxx>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h | 2 --
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c                   | 5 -----
 2 files changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
index 8f63efb2a2cc..52e5f5f2240d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h
@@ -159,6 +159,4 @@ extern unsigned int ptrs_per_p4d;
 
 #define PGD_KERNEL_START	((PAGE_SIZE / 2) / sizeof(pgd_t))
 
-#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK	(pgtable_l5_enabled() ?	PGTBL_PGD_MODIFIED : PGTBL_P4D_MODIFIED)
-
 #endif /* _ASM_X86_PGTABLE_64_DEFS_H */
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index e76bdb001460..e0cd2dfd333d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -217,11 +217,6 @@ void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
 		sync_global_pgds_l4(start, end);
 }
 
-void arch_sync_kernel_mappings(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
-{
-	sync_global_pgds(start, end);
-}
-
 /*
  * NOTE: This function is marked __ref because it calls __init function
  * (alloc_bootmem_pages). It's safe to do it ONLY when after_bootmem == 0.
-- 
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