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Hugh Dickins ee40d543e9 mm/pagewalk: fix bootstopping regression from extra pte_unmap()
Mikhail reports early-6.6-based Fedora Rawhide not booting: "rcu_preempt
detected expedited stalls", minutes wait, and then hung_task splat while
kworker trying to synchronize_rcu_expedited().  Nothing logged to disk.

He bisected to my 6.6 a349d72fd9 ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_read_unlock()s"): but the one to blame is my 6.5 commit to fix the
espfix "bad pmd" warnings when booting x86_64 with CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y.

Gaah, that added an "addr >= TASK_SIZE" check to avoid pte_offset_map(),
but failed to add the equivalent check when choosing to pte_unmap().

It's not a problem on 6.5 (for different reasons, it's harmless on both
64-bit and 32-bit), but becomes a bootstopper on 6.6 with the unbalanced
rcu_read_unlock() - RCU has a WARN_ON_ONCE for that, but it would have
scrolled off Mikhail's console too quickly.

Reported-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABXGCsNi8Tiv5zUPNXr6UJw6qV1VdaBEfGqEAMkkXE3QPvZuAQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 8b1cb4a2e8 ("mm/pagewalk: fix EFI_PGT_DUMP of espfix area")
Fixes: a349d72fd9 ("mm/pgtable: add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()s")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.