Commit e47690d7 authored by Steven Price's avatar Steven Price Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: mm: avoid allocating struct mm_struct on the stack

struct mm_struct is quite large (~1664 bytes) and so allocating on the
stack may cause problems as the kernel stack size is small.

Since ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core() was only allocating the structure so
that it could modify the pgd argument we can instead introduce a pgd
override in struct mm_walk and pass this down the call stack to where it
is needed.

Since the correct mm_struct is now being passed down, it is now also
unnecessary to take the mmap_sem semaphore because ptdump_walk_pgd() will
now take the semaphore on the real mm.

[steven.price@arm.com: restore missed arm64 changes]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200108145710.34314-1-steven.price@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200108145710.34314-1-steven.price@arm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghit...
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