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[PATCH v13 12/22] mm: pagewalk: Allow walking without vma

From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Date: 2019-10-24 09:38:09
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: memory management, memory management - core, the rest · Maintainers: Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds

Since 48684a65b4e3: "mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of walk_page_range
for vma(VM_PFNMAP)", page_table_walk() will report any kernel area as
a hole, because it lacks a vma.

This means each arch has re-implemented page table walking when needed,
for example in the per-arch ptdump walker.

Remove the requirement to have a vma except when trying to split huge
pages.

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index fc4d98a3a5a0..4139e9163aee 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	do {
 again:
 		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pmd_none(*pmd) || !walk->vma) {
+		if (pmd_none(*pmd)) {
 			if (ops->pte_hole)
 				err = ops->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
 			if (err)
@@ -61,9 +61,14 @@ static int walk_pmd_range(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (!ops->pte_entry)
 			continue;
 
-		split_huge_pmd(walk->vma, pmd, addr);
-		if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
-			goto again;
+		if (walk->vma) {
+			split_huge_pmd(walk->vma, pmd, addr);
+			if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
+				goto again;
+		} else if (pmd_leaf(*pmd)) {
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		err = walk_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, walk);
 		if (err)
 			break;
@@ -84,7 +89,7 @@ static int walk_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 	do {
  again:
 		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
-		if (pud_none(*pud) || !walk->vma) {
+		if (pud_none(*pud)) {
 			if (ops->pte_hole)
 				err = ops->pte_hole(addr, next, walk);
 			if (err)
@@ -98,9 +103,13 @@ static int walk_pud_range(p4d_t *p4d, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 				break;
 		}
 
-		split_huge_pud(walk->vma, pud, addr);
-		if (pud_none(*pud))
-			goto again;
+		if (walk->vma) {
+			split_huge_pud(walk->vma, pud, addr);
+			if (pud_none(*pud))
+				goto again;
+		} else if (pud_leaf(*pud)) {
+			continue;
+		}
 
 		if (ops->pmd_entry || ops->pte_entry)
 			err = walk_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, walk);
-- 
2.20.1


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