x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode

Browse source

Impact: fix race leading to crash under KVM and Xen

The CPA code may be called while we're in lazy mmu update mode - for
example, when using DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and doing a slab allocation
in an interrupt handler which interrupted a lazy mmu update.  In this
case, the in-memory pagetable state may be out of date due to pending
queued updates.  We need to flush any pending updates before inspecting
the page table.  Similarly, we must explicitly flush any modifications
CPA may have made (which comes down to flushing queued operations when
flushing the TLB).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

...

This commit is contained in:

Jeremy Fitzhardinge 2009-02-11 09:32:19 -08:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

parent 9f339e7028

commit 4f06b0436b

1 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

14

arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c

View file