Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/x86/mm' into x86/mm2

Explicitly merging these two branches due to nontrivial conflicts and
to allow further work.

Resolved Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/head32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
	arch/x86/realmode/init.c

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index e27fbf887f3..193350b51f9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -334,7 +334,12 @@ int pmdp_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (changed && dirty) {
 		*pmdp = entry;
 		pmd_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp);
-		flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+		/*
+		 * We had a write-protection fault here and changed the pmd
+		 * to to more permissive. No need to flush the TLB for that,
+		 * #PF is architecturally guaranteed to do that and in the
+		 * worst-case we'll generate a spurious fault.
+		 */
 	}
 
 	return changed;