3.6.11.3 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Hansen [ Upstream commit 1de14c3c5cbc9bb17e9dcc648cda51c0c85d54b9 ] This patch attempts to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56461 The symptom is a crash and messages like this: chrome: Corrupted page table at address 34a03000 *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000 Bad pagetable: 000f [#1] PREEMPT SMP Ingo guesses this got introduced by commit 611ae8e3f520 ("x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for x86") since that code started to free unused pagetables. On x86-32 PAE kernels, that new code has the potential to free an entire PMD page and will clear one of the four page-directory-pointer-table (aka pgd_t entries). The hardware aggressively "caches" these top-level entries and invlpg does not actually affect the CPU's copy. If we clear one we *HAVE* to do a full TLB flush, otherwise we might continue using a freed pmd page. (note, we do this properly on the population side in pud_populate()). This patch tracks whenever we clear one of these entries in the 'struct mmu_gather', and ensures that we follow up with a full tlb flush. BTW, I disassembled and checked that: if (tlb->fullmm == 0) and if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all) generate essentially the same code, so there should be zero impact there to the !PAE case. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Artem S Tashkinov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h | 2 +- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 7 +++++++ include/asm-generic/tlb.h | 7 ++++++- mm/memory.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h index 4fef207..c779730 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ #define tlb_flush(tlb) \ { \ - if (tlb->fullmm == 0) \ + if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all) \ flush_tlb_mm_range(tlb->mm, tlb->start, tlb->end, 0UL); \ else \ flush_tlb_mm_range(tlb->mm, 0UL, TLB_FLUSH_ALL, 0UL); \ diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c index 8573b83..eedfeed 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ void ___pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte) void ___pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd) { paravirt_release_pmd(__pa(pmd) >> PAGE_SHIFT); + /* + * NOTE! For PAE, any changes to the top page-directory-pointer-table + * entries need a full cr3 reload to flush. + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE + tlb->need_flush_all = 1; +#endif tlb_remove_page(tlb, virt_to_page(pmd)); } diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h index ed6642a..54d2a6a 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h @@ -91,7 +91,12 @@ struct mmu_gather { unsigned int need_flush : 1, /* Did free PTEs */ fast_mode : 1; /* No batching */ - unsigned int fullmm; + /* we are in the middle of an operation to clear + * a full mm and can make some optimizations */ + unsigned int fullmm : 1, + /* we have performed an operation which + * requires a complete flush of the tlb */ + need_flush_all : 1; struct mmu_gather_batch *active; struct mmu_gather_batch local; diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 5736170..3a8b06b 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -206,6 +206,7 @@ void tlb_gather_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct mm_struct *mm, bool fullmm) tlb->mm = mm; tlb->fullmm = fullmm; + tlb->need_flush_all = 0; tlb->start = -1UL; tlb->end = 0; tlb->need_flush = 0; -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/