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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c index bb00e0cba119..85806a6bed4d 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/radix_pgtable.c @@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ static __ref void *early_alloc_pgtable(unsigned long size, int nid, return ptr; } +/* + * When allocating pud or pmd pointers, we allocate a complete page + * of PAGE_SIZE rather than PUD_TABLE_SIZE or PMD_TABLE_SIZE. This + * is to ensure that the page obtained from the memblock allocator + * can be completely used as page table page and can be freed + * correctly when the page table entries are removed. + */ static int early_map_kernel_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long pa, pgprot_t flags, unsigned int map_page_size, @@ -72,8 +79,8 @@ static int early_map_kernel_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long pa, pgdp = pgd_offset_k(ea); p4dp = p4d_offset(pgdp, ea); if (p4d_none(*p4dp)) { - pudp = early_alloc_pgtable(PUD_TABLE_SIZE, nid, - region_start, region_end); + pudp = early_alloc_pgtable(PAGE_SIZE, nid, + region_start, region_end); p4d_populate(&init_mm, p4dp, pudp); } pudp = pud_offset(p4dp, ea); @@ -82,8 +89,8 @@ static int early_map_kernel_page(unsigned long ea, unsigned long pa, goto set_the_pte; } if (pud_none(*pudp)) { - pmdp = early_alloc_pgtable(PMD_TABLE_SIZE, nid, - region_start, region_end); + pmdp = early_alloc_pgtable(PAGE_SIZE, nid, region_start, + region_end); pud_populate(&init_mm, pudp, pmdp); } pmdp = pmd_offset(pudp, ea); |