Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86/modules: Make x86 allocs to flush when free
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-11-28 23:11:50
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2018-11-28 23:11:50
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linux-mm, lkml
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 16:07:54 -0800 Rick Edgecombe [off-list ref] wrote:
Change the module allocations to flush before freeing the pages. ...--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ void *module_alloc(unsigned long size) p = __vmalloc_node_range(size, MODULE_ALIGN, MODULES_VADDR + get_module_load_offset(), MODULES_END, GFP_KERNEL, - PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, 0, NUMA_NO_NODE, - __builtin_return_address(0)); + PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, VM_IMMEDIATE_UNMAP, + NUMA_NO_NODE, __builtin_return_address(0)); if (p && (kasan_module_alloc(p, size) < 0)) { vfree(p); return NULL;
Should any other architectures do this?