docs: x86: Remove obsolete information about x86_64 vmalloc() faulting

x86_64 vmalloc() mappings are no longer "synchronized" among page tables
via faulting since commit 6eb82f994026 ("x86/mm: Pre-allocate P4D/PUD
pages for vmalloc area"), since the corresponding P4D or PUD pages are
now preallocated at boot, by preallocate_vmalloc_pages().  Drop the
"lazily synchronized" description for less confusion.

While this file is x86_64-specific, it is worth noting that things are
different for x86_32, where vmalloc()-related changes to `init_mm.pgd` are
synchronized to all page tables in the system during runtime, via
arch_sync_kernel_mappings().  Unfortunately, this synchronization is
subject to race condition, which is further handled via faulting, see
vmalloc_fault().  See commit 4819e15f740e ("x86/mm/32: Bring back vmalloc
faulting on x86_32") for more details.

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <peilin.ye@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210818220123.2623-1-yepeilin.cs@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
index ede1875..9798676 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst
@@ -140,10 +140,6 @@ The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest
 memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory
 holes).
 
-vmalloc space is lazily synchronized into the different PML4/PML5 pages of
-the processes using the page fault handler, with init_top_pgt as
-reference.
-
 We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual
 memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed).
 The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available