linux-kernel - [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:55:13 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jbeulich@...e.com
Subject: [PATCH] xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing

While TLB_FLUSH_ALL gets passed as 'end' argument to
flush_tlb_others(), the Xen code was made to check its 'start'
parameter. That may give a incorrect op.cmd to MMUEXT_INVLPG_MULTI
instead of MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_MULTI. Then it causes some page can not
be flushed from TLB.

This patch fixed this issue.

Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index b65a761..5141d80 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1283,7 +1283,7 @@ static void xen_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpus,
 	cpumask_clear_cpu(smp_processor_id(), to_cpumask(args->mask));
 
 	args->op.cmd = MMUEXT_TLB_FLUSH_MULTI;
-	if (start != TLB_FLUSH_ALL && (end - start) <= PAGE_SIZE) {
+	if (end != TLB_FLUSH_ALL && (end - start) <= PAGE_SIZE) {
 		args->op.cmd = MMUEXT_INVLPG_MULTI;
 		args->op.arg1.linear_addr = start;
 	}
-- 
1.7.5.4

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