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x86/mm: Always tell core mm to sync kernel mappings

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Each mm_struct has its own copy of the page tables. When core mm code
makes changes to a copy of the page tables those changes sometimes
need to be synchronized with other mms' copies of the page tables. But
when this synchronization actually needs to happen is highly
architecture and configuration specific.

In cases where kernel PMDs are shared across processes
(SHARED_KERNEL_PMD) the core mm does not itself need to do that
synchronization for kernel PMD changes. The x86 code communicates
this by clearing the PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED bit cleared in those
configs to avoid expensive synchronization.

The kernel is moving toward never sharing kernel PMDs on 32-bit.
Prepare for that and make 32-bit PAE always set PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED,
even if there is no modification to synchronize. This obviously adds
some synchronization overhead in cases where the kernel page tables
are being changed.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250414173237.EC790E95%40davehans-spike.ostc.intel.com
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Dave Hansen 2025-04-14 10:32:37 -07:00
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arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level_types.h
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@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ typedef union {
#define SHARED_KERNEL_PMD (!static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PTI))
#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK (SHARED_KERNEL_PMD ? 0 : PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED)
#define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK PGTBL_PMD_MODIFIED
/*
* PGDIR_SHIFT determines what a top-level page table entry can map