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x86/mm: Disable hugetlb page table sharing on 32-bit
Only select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE on 64-bit x86. Page table sharing requires at least three levels because it involves shared references to PMD tables; 32-bit x86 has either two-level paging (without PAE) or three-level paging (with PAE), but even with three-level paging, having a dedicated PGD entry for hugetlb is only barely possible (because the PGD only has four entries), and it seems unlikely anyone's actually using PMD sharing on 32-bit. Having ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE enabled on non-PAE 32-bit X86 (which has 2-level paging) became particularly problematic after commit 59d9094 ("mm: hugetlb: independent PMD page table shared count"), since that changes `struct ptdesc` such that the `pt_mm` (for PGDs) and the `pt_share_count` (for PMDs) share the same union storage - and with 2-level paging, PMDs are PGDs. (For comparison, arm64 also gates ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE on the configuration of page tables such that it is never enabled with 2-level paging.) Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Fixes: cfe28c5 ("x86: mm: Remove x86 version of huge_pmd_share.") Reported-by: Vitaly Chikunov <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]> Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Tested-by: Vitaly Chikunov <[email protected]> Cc:[email protected] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250702-x86-2level-hugetlb-v2-1-1a98096edf92%40google.com
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select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
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select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
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select ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
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select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
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select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE if X86_64
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select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
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select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_DAX_VMEMMAP if X86_64
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select ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_HUGETLB_VMEMMAP if X86_64

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