| Message ID | 20181205122851.5891-4-david@redhat.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | mm: PG_reserved cleanups and documentation | expand |
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c index 65b3bdb99f0b..d59dc2e9a695 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c @@ -795,7 +795,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void) BUG_ON(vdso32_pagelist == NULL); for (i = 0; i < vdso32_pages; i++) { struct page *pg = virt_to_page(vdso32_kbase + i*PAGE_SIZE); - ClearPageReserved(pg); get_page(pg); vdso32_pagelist[i] = pg; } @@ -809,7 +808,6 @@ static int __init vdso_init(void) BUG_ON(vdso64_pagelist == NULL); for (i = 0; i < vdso64_pages; i++) { struct page *pg = virt_to_page(vdso64_kbase + i*PAGE_SIZE); - ClearPageReserved(pg); get_page(pg); vdso64_pagelist[i] = pg; }
The VDSO is part of the kernel image and therefore the struct pages are marked as reserved during boot. As we install a special mapping, the actual struct pages will never be exposed to MM via the page tables. We can therefore leave the pages marked as reserved. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)