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Joerg Roedel authored
Pre-allocate the page-table pages for the vmalloc area at the level which needs synchronization on x86-64, which is P4D for 5-level and PUD for 4-level paging. Doing this at boot makes sure no synchronization of that area is necessary at runtime. The synchronization takes the pgd_lock and iterates over all page-tables in the system, so it can take quite long and is better avoided. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200721095953.6218-2-joro@8bytes.org
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