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arch/tile: fix up locking in pgtable.c slightly

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We should be holding the init_mm.page_table_lock in shatter_huge_page()
since we are modifying the kernel page tables.  Then, only if we are
walking the other root page tables to update them, do we want to take
the pgd_lock.

Add a comment about taking the pgd_lock that we always do it with
interrupts disabled and therefore are not at risk from the tlbflush
IPI deadlock as is seen on x86.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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Chris Metcalf 2012-03-29 15:50:08 -04:00
parent 5f22070412
commit 719ea79e33
1 changed files with 12 additions and 10 deletions
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arch/tile/mm/pgtable.c
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@ -177,14 +177,10 @@ void shatter_huge_page(unsigned long addr)
if (!pmd_huge_page(*pmd))
return;
/*
* Grab the pgd_lock, since we may need it to walk the pgd_list,
* and since we need some kind of lock here to avoid races.
*/
spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags);
spin_lock_irqsave(&init_mm.page_table_lock, flags);
if (!pmd_huge_page(*pmd)) {
/* Lost the race to convert the huge page. */
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&init_mm.page_table_lock, flags);
return;
}
@ -194,6 +190,7 @@ void shatter_huge_page(unsigned long addr)
#ifdef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
/* Walk every pgd on the system and update the pmd there. */
spin_lock(&pgd_lock);
list_for_each(pos, &pgd_list) {
pmd_t *copy_pmd;
pgd = list_to_pgd(pos) + pgd_index(addr);
@ -201,6 +198,7 @@ void shatter_huge_page(unsigned long addr)
copy_pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
__set_pmd(copy_pmd, *pmd);
}
spin_unlock(&pgd_lock);
#endif
/* Tell every cpu to notice the change. */
@ -208,7 +206,7 @@ void shatter_huge_page(unsigned long addr)
cpu_possible_mask, NULL, 0);
/* Hold the lock until the TLB flush is finished to avoid races. */
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&init_mm.page_table_lock, flags);
}
/*
@ -217,9 +215,13 @@ void shatter_huge_page(unsigned long addr)
* against pageattr.c; it is the unique case in which a valid change
* of kernel pagetables can't be lazily synchronized by vmalloc faults.
* vmalloc faults work because attached pagetables are never freed.
* The locking scheme was chosen on the basis of manfred's
* recommendations and having no core impact whatsoever.
* -- wli
*
* The lock is always taken with interrupts disabled, unlike on x86
* and other platforms, because we need to take the lock in
* shatter_huge_page(), which may be called from an interrupt context.
* We are not at risk from the tlbflush IPI deadlock that was seen on
* x86, since we use the flush_remote() API to have the hypervisor do
* the TLB flushes regardless of irq disabling.
*/
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pgd_lock);
LIST_HEAD(pgd_list);