4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de
[ Upstream commit 6863ea0cda8725072522cd78bda332d9a0b73150 ]
It is perfectly okay to take page-faults, especially on the vmalloc area while executing an NMI handler. Remove the warning.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel jroedel@suse.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Tested-by: David H. Gutteridge dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" hpa@zytor.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: Andrea Arcangeli aarcange@redhat.com Cc: Waiman Long llong@redhat.com Cc: Pavel Machek pavel@ucw.cz Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo acme@kernel.org Cc: Alexander Shishkin alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: Jiri Olsa jolsa@redhat.com Cc: Namhyung Kim namhyung@kernel.org Cc: joro@8bytes.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532533683-5988-2-git-send-email-joro@8bytes.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -317,8 +317,6 @@ static noinline int vmalloc_fault(unsign if (!(address >= VMALLOC_START && address < VMALLOC_END)) return -1;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(in_nmi()); - /* * Synchronize this task's top level page-table * with the 'reference' page table.