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x86/mm/pat: Document the (currently) EFI-only code path 

It's not at all obvious that populate_pgd() and friends are only
executed when mapping EFI virtual memory regions or that no other
pageattr callers pass a ->pgd value.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-4-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Matt Fleming 2016-04-25 21:06:35 +01:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 14c43be601
commit 7fc8442f2a
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@ -1125,8 +1125,14 @@ static int populate_pgd(struct cpa_data *cpa, unsigned long addr)
static int __cpa_process_fault(struct cpa_data *cpa, unsigned long vaddr,
int primary)
{
if (cpa->pgd)
if (cpa->pgd) {
/*
* Right now, we only execute this code path when mapping
* the EFI virtual memory map regions, no other users
* provide a ->pgd value. This may change in the future.
*/
return populate_pgd(cpa, vaddr);
}
/*
* Ignore all non primary paths.