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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-08-07 03:44:57 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2019-08-07 03:44:57 +0200
commit13dfb3fa494361ea9a5950f27c9cd8b06d28c04f (patch)
tree1bf30874f57c6c6b21160a10282191fcd0868055 /mm/vmalloc.c
parentMerge branch '40GbE' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirshe... (diff)
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net (diff)
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Just minor overlapping changes in the conflicts here. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 4fa8d84599b0..e0fc963acc41 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1259,6 +1259,12 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
return false;
/*
+ * First make sure the mappings are removed from all page-tables
+ * before they are freed.
+ */
+ vmalloc_sync_all();
+
+ /*
* TODO: to calculate a flush range without looping.
* The list can be up to lazy_max_pages() elements.
*/
@@ -3038,6 +3044,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remap_vmalloc_range);
/*
* Implement a stub for vmalloc_sync_all() if the architecture chose not to
* have one.
+ *
+ * The purpose of this function is to make sure the vmalloc area
+ * mappings are identical in all page-tables in the system.
*/
void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void)
{