Hi Christophe,
On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 4:52 PM Christophe Leroy
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> Le 07/12/2023 à 16:03, Alexandre Ghiti a écrit :
> > In 6.5, we removed the vmalloc fault path because that can't work (see
> > [1] [2]). Then in order to make sure that new page table entries were
> > seen by the page
Le 07/12/2023 à 16:03, Alexandre Ghiti a écrit :
> In 6.5, we removed the vmalloc fault path because that can't work (see
> [1] [2]). Then in order to make sure that new page table entries were
> seen by the page table walker, we had to preventively emit a sfence.vma
> on all harts [3] but this
In 6.5, we removed the vmalloc fault path because that can't work (see
[1] [2]). Then in order to make sure that new page table entries were
seen by the page table walker, we had to preventively emit a sfence.vma
on all harts [3] but this solution is very costly since it relies on IPI.
And even
