linux-kernel - [PATCH 45/75] sparc: tsb must be flushed before tlb

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Message-Id: <1375209919-1768-12-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:44:49 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 45/75] sparc: tsb must be flushed before tlb

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

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

From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>

commit 23a01138efe216f8084cfaa74b0b90dd4b097441 upstream.

This fixes a race where a cpu may re-load a tlb from a stale tsb right
after it has been flushed by a remote function call.

I still see some instability when stressing the system with parallel
kernel builds while creating memory pressure by writing to
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, but this patch improves the stability
significantly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
index 83d89bc..37e7bc4 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ static void tlb_batch_add_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr,
 	}
 
 	if (!tb->active) {
-		global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr);
 		flush_tsb_user_page(mm, vaddr);
+		global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-- 
1.8.1.2

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