linux-stable/arch
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a741e67969 [POWERPC] Make tlb flush batch use lazy MMU mode
The current tlb flush code on powerpc 64 bits has a subtle race since we
lost the page table lock due to the possible faulting in of new PTEs
after a previous one has been removed but before the corresponding hash
entry has been evicted, which can leads to all sort of fatal problems.

This patch reworks the batch code completely. It doesn't use the mmu_gather
stuff anymore. Instead, we use the lazy mmu hooks that were added by the
paravirt code. They have the nice property that the enter/leave lazy mmu
mode pair is always fully contained by the PTE lock for a given range
of PTEs. Thus we can guarantee that all batches are flushed on a given
CPU before it drops that lock.

We also generalize batching for any PTE update that require a flush.

Batching is now enabled on a CPU by arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() and
disabled by arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(). The code epects that this is
always contained within a PTE lock section so no preemption can happen
and no PTE insertion in that range from another CPU. When batching
is enabled on a CPU, every PTE updates that need a hash flush will
use the batch for that flush.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-13 04:09:38 +10:00
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alpha [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: alpha 2007-02-12 09:48:37 -08:00
arm [ARM] Export dma_channel_active() 2007-03-31 21:36:53 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] arch/arm26/kernel/entry.S: remove dead code 2007-03-01 14:53:35 -08:00
avr32 [PATCH] gpio_direction_output() needs an initial value 2007-03-16 19:25:04 -07:00
cris [PATCH] MSI-X: fix resume crash 2007-03-28 13:59:37 -07:00
frv [PATCH] MSI-X: fix resume crash 2007-03-28 13:59:37 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] Declare init_irq_proc before we use it. 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] i386: irqbalance_disable() section fix 2007-04-08 19:47:55 -07:00
ia64 [IA64] SGI Altix : fix pcibr_dmamap_ate32() bug 2007-04-06 15:38:12 -07:00
m32r Various typo fixes. 2007-02-17 19:07:33 +01:00
m68k [PATCH] Declare init_irq_proc before we use it. 2007-02-19 14:21:50 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove local_bh_count 2007-03-06 18:08:38 -08:00
mips [MIPS] SMTC: Fix recursion in instant IPI replay code. 2007-03-29 23:46:36 +01:00
parisc [PARISC] clocksource: Move update_cr16_clocksource later in boot 2007-02-26 22:21:22 -05:00
powerpc [POWERPC] Make tlb flush batch use lazy MMU mode 2007-04-13 04:09:38 +10:00
ppc [POWERPC] Remove unused header file: arch/ppc/syslib/cpc710.h. 2007-04-13 03:55:16 +10:00
s390 [S390] kprobes: Align probe address. 2007-03-26 20:43:46 +02:00
sh sh: Kill bogus GCC4 symbol exports. 2007-03-28 17:24:47 +09:00
sh64 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl 2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
sparc [SPARC32]: Fix SMP build regression 2007-03-26 21:49:13 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: store-init needs trailing membar. 2007-03-19 13:27:33 -07:00
um [PATCH] uml: fix unreasonably long udelay 2007-04-02 10:06:08 -07:00
v850 kbuild: Replace remaining "depends" with "depends on" 2007-02-17 19:05:24 +01:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64 early quirks: fix early_qrk[] section tag 2007-04-08 19:47:55 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: xtensa 2007-02-12 09:48:39 -08:00