Merge branch 'x86/hyperv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

To resolve conflicts with the PV TLB flush series.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index ce8066b88178..c9bea7f2b43e 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3517,6 +3517,11 @@ static noinline int do_init_module(struct module *mod)
 	 * walking this with preempt disabled.  In all the failure paths, we
 	 * call synchronize_sched(), but we don't want to slow down the success
 	 * path, so use actual RCU here.
+	 * Note that module_alloc() on most architectures creates W+X page
+	 * mappings which won't be cleaned up until do_free_init() runs.  Any
+	 * code such as mark_rodata_ro() which depends on those mappings to
+	 * be cleaned up needs to sync with the queued work - ie
+	 * rcu_barrier_sched()
 	 */
 	call_rcu_sched(&freeinit->rcu, do_free_init);
 	mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);