Patch "x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
x86-mm-implement-free-pmd-pte-page-interfaces.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:17:24 -0700
Subject: x86/mm: implement free pmd/pte page interfaces

From: Toshi Kani <[email protected]>

commit 28ee90fe6048fa7b7ceaeb8831c0e4e454a4cf89 upstream.

Implement pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page() on x86, which clear a given pud/pmd entry and free up lower level page table(s).

The address range associated with the pud/pmd entry must have been purged by INVLPG.

---
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -676,7 +676,22 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
  */
 int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
 {
-	return pud_none(*pud);
+	pmd_t *pmd;
+	int i;
+
+	if (pud_none(*pud))
+		return 1;
+
+	pmd = (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++)
+		if (!pmd_free_pte_page(&pmd[i]))
+			return 0;
+
+	pud_clear(pud);
+	free_page((unsigned long)pmd);
+
+	return 1;
 }
 
 /**

@@ -688,6 +703,15 @@ int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud)
  */
 int pmd_free_pte_page(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
-	return pmd_none(*pmd);
+	pte_t *pte;
+
+	if (pmd_none(*pmd))
+		return 1;
+
+	pte = (pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(*pmd);
+	pmd_clear(pmd);
+	free_page((unsigned long)pte);
+
+	return 1;
 }
 #endif	/* CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/mm-vmalloc-add-interfaces-to-free-unmapped-page-table.patch queue-4.4/x86-mm-implement-free-pmd-pte-page-interfaces.patch