On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Linus Torvalds <torva...@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