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authorKevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>2025-04-08 10:52:12 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-05-11 17:48:21 -0700
commit65ccffcee891930864456fa47447d96a630faf8a (patch)
treed0874a6b5da92cf0fb04beaef8f7eb2e67a091a5
parentd82d3bf4115217bb3f43f9320bad5d68a35c278f (diff)
x86: pgtable: always use pte_free_kernel()
Page table pages are normally freed using the appropriate helper for the given page table level. On x86, pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() are an exception to the rule: they call free_page() directly. Constructor/destructor calls are about to be introduced for kernel PTEs. To avoid missing dtor calls in those helpers, free the PTE pages using pte_free_kernel() instead of free_page(). While at it also use pmd_free() instead of calling pagetable_dtor() explicitly at the PMD level. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-3-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 9dbd25e52f10..767fd634af4f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -809,14 +809,13 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++) {
if (!pmd_none(pmd_sv[i])) {
pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(pmd_sv[i]);
- free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+ pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
}
}
free_page((unsigned long)pmd_sv);
- pagetable_dtor(virt_to_ptdesc(pmd));
- free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
+ pmd_free(&init_mm, pmd);
return 1;
}
@@ -839,7 +838,7 @@ int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr)
/* INVLPG to clear all paging-structure caches */
flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE-1);
- free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+ pte_free_kernel(&init_mm, pte);
return 1;
}