Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Aug 2020 20:57:23 +0200 | From | Joerg Roedel <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm changes for v5.9 |
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On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > So apparently the "the page-table pages are all pre-allocated now" is > > simply not true. Joerg?
It pre-allocates the whole vmalloc/ioremap PUD/P4D pages, but I actually only tested it with 4-level paging, as I don't have access to 5-level paging hardware.
I'll try to make sense of that oops.
> > Unless somebody can figure this out fairly quickly, I think it should > > just be reverted. > > Agreed. Joerg?
Yeah, please just revert that commit for now until I have an idea what went wrong.
Joerg
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