fs/proc/task_mmu.c: make the task_mmu walk_page_range() limit in clear_refs_write() obvious
Trying to walk all of virtual memory requires architecture specific knowledge. On x86_64, addresses must be sign extended from bit 48, whereas on arm64 the top VA_BITS of address space have their own set of page tables. clear_refs_write() calls walk_page_range() on the range 0 to ~0UL, it provides a test_walk() callback that only expects to be walking over VMAs. Currently walk_pmd_range() will skip memory regions that don't have a VMA, reporting them as a hole. As this call only expects to walk user address space, make it walk 0 to 'highest_vm_end'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472655792-22439-1-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.comSigned-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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