[PATCH v2 01/20] mm: Dont assume page-table invariance during faults

2017-08-17 Thread Laurent Dufour
From: Peter Zijlstra One of the side effects of speculating on faults (without holding mmap_sem) is that we can race with free_pgtables() and therefore we cannot assume the page-tables will stick around. Remove the reliance on the pte pointer. Signed-off-by: Peter

[PATCH v2 01/20] mm: Dont assume page-table invariance during faults

2017-08-17 Thread Laurent Dufour
From: Peter Zijlstra One of the side effects of speculating on faults (without holding mmap_sem) is that we can race with free_pgtables() and therefore we cannot assume the page-tables will stick around. Remove the reliance on the pte pointer. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) ---