mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions
Add a new flag VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS, for enabling vfree operations to immediately clear executable TLB entries before freeing pages, and handle resetting permissions on the directmap. This flag is useful for any kind of memory with elevated permissions, or where there can be related permissions changes on the directmap. Today this is RO+X and RO memory. Although this enables directly vfreeing non-writeable memory now, non-writable memory cannot be freed in an interrupt because the allocation itself is used as a node on deferred free list. So when RO memory needs to be freed in an interrupt the code doing the vfree needs to have its own work queue, as was the case before the deferred vfree list was added to vmalloc. For architectures with set_direct_map_ implementations this whole operation can be done with one TLB flush when centralized like this. For others with directmap permissions, currently only arm64, a backup method using set_memory functio...
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