It's forbidden to take the page_table_lock with the irq disabled or if there's contention the IPIs (for tlb flushes) sent with the page_table_lock held will never run leading to a deadlock. Nobody takes the pgd_lock from irq context so the _irqsave can be removed. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: LKML-Reference: <201102162345.p1GNjMjm021738@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Git-commit: a79e53d85683c6dd9f99c90511028adc2043031f --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c @@ -223,15 +223,14 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void) address >= TASK_SIZE && address < FIXADDR_TOP; address += PMD_SIZE) { - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { if (!vmalloc_sync_one(page_address(page), address)) break; } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } } @@ -331,13 +330,12 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void) address += PGDIR_SIZE) { const pgd_t *pgd_ref = pgd_offset_k(address); - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; if (pgd_none(*pgd_ref)) continue; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { pgd_t *pgd; pgd = (pgd_t *)page_address(page) + pgd_index(address); @@ -346,7 +344,7 @@ void vmalloc_sync_all(void) else BUG_ON(pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd) != pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd_ref)); } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } } --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -56,12 +56,10 @@ static unsigned long direct_pages_count[ void update_page_count(int level, unsigned long pages) { - unsigned long flags; - /* Protect against CPA */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); direct_pages_count[level] += pages; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } static void split_page_count(int level) @@ -354,7 +352,7 @@ static int try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, struct cpa_data *cpa) { - unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, flags, addr, pfn; + unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, addr, pfn; pte_t new_pte, old_pte, *tmp; pgprot_t old_prot, new_prot; int i, do_split = 1; @@ -363,7 +361,7 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, uns if (cpa->force_split) return 1; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); /* * Check for races, another CPU might have split this page * up already: @@ -458,14 +456,14 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, uns } out_unlock: - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); return do_split; } static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address) { - unsigned long flags, pfn, pfninc = 1; + unsigned long pfn, pfninc = 1; unsigned int i, level; pte_t *pbase, *tmp; pgprot_t ref_prot; @@ -479,7 +477,7 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, if (!base) return -ENOMEM; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); /* * Check for races, another CPU might have split this page * up for us already: @@ -551,7 +549,7 @@ out_unlock: */ if (base) __free_page(base); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); return 0; } --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -110,14 +110,12 @@ static void pgd_ctor(pgd_t *pgd) static void pgd_dtor(pgd_t *pgd) { - unsigned long flags; /* can be called from interrupt context */ - if (SHARED_KERNEL_PMD) return; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); pgd_list_del(pgd); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } /* @@ -248,7 +246,6 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) { pgd_t *pgd; pmd_t *pmds[PREALLOCATED_PMDS]; - unsigned long flags; pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP); @@ -268,12 +265,12 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm) * respect to anything walking the pgd_list, so that they * never see a partially populated pgd. */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); pgd_ctor(pgd); pgd_prepopulate_pmd(mm, pgd, pmds); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); return pgd; --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c @@ -988,10 +988,9 @@ static void xen_pgd_pin(struct mm_struct */ void xen_mm_pin_all(void) { - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { if (!PagePinned(page)) { @@ -1000,7 +999,7 @@ void xen_mm_pin_all(void) } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } /* @@ -1101,10 +1100,9 @@ static void xen_pgd_unpin(struct mm_stru */ void xen_mm_unpin_all(void) { - unsigned long flags; struct page *page; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); list_for_each_entry(page, &pgd_list, lru) { if (PageSavePinned(page)) { @@ -1114,7 +1112,7 @@ void xen_mm_unpin_all(void) } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } void xen_activate_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next)