linux-kernel - [ 020/104] s390/mm: fix flush_tlb_kernel

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Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:05:44 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [ 020/104] s390/mm: fix flush_tlb_kernel_range()

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

------------------

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

commit f6a70a07079518280022286a1dceb797d12e1edf upstream.

Our flush_tlb_kernel_range() implementation calls __tlb_flush_mm() with
&init_mm as argument. __tlb_flush_mm() however will only flush tlbs
for the passed in mm if its mm_cpumask is not empty.

For the init_mm however its mm_cpumask has never any bits set. Which in
turn means that our flush_tlb_kernel_range() implementation doesn't
work at all.

This can be easily verified with a vmalloc/vfree loop which allocates
a page, writes to it and then frees the page again. A crash will follow
almost instantly.

To fix this remove the cpumask_empty() check in __tlb_flush_mm() since
there shouldn't be too many mms with a zero mm_cpumask, besides the
init_mm of course.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -74,8 +74,6 @@ static inline void __tlb_flush_idte(unsi

 static inline void __tlb_flush_mm(struct mm_struct * mm)
 {
-	if (unlikely(cpumask_empty(mm_cpumask(mm))))
-		return;
 	/*
 	 * If the machine has IDTE we prefer to do a per mm flush
 	 * on all cpus instead of doing a local flush if the mm

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