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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)
commitaadc319b2cc031a9fe8712eab185a004a06f44c7
treed25db287b106e4417667beafb2f3d39012accc20
parent825b0c0ed489cb92c5a3ae2b64bee493cbf67168
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