[patch 07/60] sparc64: Flush TLB before releasing pages.

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jun 09 2009 - 23:34:50 EST


-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------
From: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 86ee79c3dbd48d7430fd81edc1da3516c9f6dabc ]

tlb_flush_mmu() needs to flush pending TLB entries before
processing the mmu_gather ->pages list.

Noticed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/tlb_64.h
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ static inline struct mmu_gather *tlb_gat
static inline void tlb_flush_mmu(struct mmu_gather *mp)
{
if (mp->need_flush) {
+ if (!mp->fullmm)
+ flush_tlb_pending();
free_pages_and_swap_cache(mp->pages, mp->pages_nr);
mp->pages_nr = 0;
mp->need_flush = 0;
@@ -78,8 +80,6 @@ static inline void tlb_finish_mmu(struct

if (mp->fullmm)
mp->fullmm = 0;
- else
- flush_tlb_pending();

/* keep the page table cache within bounds */
check_pgt_cache();


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