On Wed, 16 May 2018, Toshi Kani wrote:
> This series fixes two issues in the x86 ioremap free page handlings
> for pud/pmd mappings.
>
> Patch 01 fixes BUG_ON on x86-PAE reported by Joerg. It disables
> the free page handling on x86-PAE.
>
> Patch 02-03 fixes a possible issue with speculation which can cause
> stale page-directory cache.
> - Patch 02 is from Chintan's v9 01/04 patch [1], which adds a new arg
> 'addr', with my merge change to patch 01.
> - Patch 03 adds a TLB purge (INVLPG) to purge page-structure caches
> that may be cached by speculation. See the patch descriptions for
> more detal.
Toshi, Joerg, Michal!
I'm failing to find a conclusion of this discussion. Can we finally make
some progress with that?
Can someone give me a hint what to pick up urgently please?
Thanks,
tglx
