x86/mm/pat: Document the (currently) EFI-only code path
authorMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 20:06:35 +0000 (21:06 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 Apr 2016 09:33:48 +0000 (11:33 +0200)
commit7fc8442f2a8a77f40565b42c41e4f2d48b179a56
treed9316292a12f75156616c6bd1d08c9c4122c655d
parent14c43be60166981f0b1f034ad9c59252c6f99e0d
x86/mm/pat: Document the (currently) EFI-only code path

It's not at all obvious that populate_pgd() and friends are only
executed when mapping EFI virtual memory regions or that no other
pageattr callers pass a ->pgd value.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-4-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c