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x86/mm: Flush lazy MMU when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set
authorBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:59:52 +0000 (13:59 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:19:19 +0000 (07:19 +0200)
commit5bd8166ae4e6b87b1fbfa594a3e1be866ef21c75
treed25db287b106e4417667beafb2f3d39012accc20
parent435763c39ad99bc163257fe94a24bc743d366d81
x86/mm: Flush lazy MMU when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set

When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set page table updates made by
kernel_map_pages() are not made visible (via TLB flush)
immediately if lazy MMU is on. In environments that support lazy
MMU (e.g. Xen) this may lead to fatal page faults, for example,
when zap_pte_range() needs to allocate pages in
__tlb_remove_page() -> tlb_next_batch().

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365703192-2089-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c