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author | John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> | 2013-01-14 19:45:00 -0500 |
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committer | James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> | 2013-01-19 10:54:45 +0000 |
commit | 7139bc1579901b53db7e898789e916ee2fb52d78 (patch) | |
tree | c5030cb7afe83a347de96757c2a3b5490a9782e8 /arch/parisc/kernel | |
parent | 5da1f88b8b727dc3a66c52d4513e871be6d43d19 (diff) |
[PARISC] Purge existing TLB entries in set_pte_at and ptep_set_wrprotect
This patch goes a long way toward fixing the minifail bug, and
it significantly improves the stability of SMP machines such as
the rp3440. When write protecting a page for COW, we need to
purge the existing translation. Otherwise, the COW break
doesn't occur as expected because the TLB may still have a stale entry
which allows writes.
[jejb: fix up checkpatch errors]
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc/kernel')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c index 48e16dc2010..b89a85ab945 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c @@ -419,6 +419,24 @@ void kunmap_parisc(void *addr) EXPORT_SYMBOL(kunmap_parisc); #endif +void purge_tlb_entries(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) +{ + unsigned long flags; + + /* Note: purge_tlb_entries can be called at startup with + no context. */ + + /* Disable preemption while we play with %sr1. */ + preempt_disable(); + mtsp(mm->context, 1); + purge_tlb_start(flags); + pdtlb(addr); + pitlb(addr); + purge_tlb_end(flags); + preempt_enable(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(purge_tlb_entries); + void __flush_tlb_range(unsigned long sid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) { |