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i386: Use atomic 64bit load to read PDE value from PAE pagetables in pmap_kextract().
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Authored by kib on Jan 2 2019, 1:17 PM.
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pmap_kextract() can race with promotion/demotion on the kernel page table, in which case current non-atomic 64bit read would see torn value, breaking pmap_kextract(). pmap_kextract() would correctly handle either promoted or demoted PDE, but not the mix where one word is from a different state.

It requires PAE and > 4G memory to reproduce. We observed this in real loads, both for intensive use of malloc()/free() where vtoslab() returned invalid pointer to the slab, and with the use of busdma_bounce, where incorrect page was bounced.

In collaboration with: pho

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