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authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-03-12 21:12:46 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>2009-03-12 21:12:46 -0400
commit51b643b404827d8fde60d7953773a42d46ca87e0 (patch)
treeae71fcbd8b3640b68fc11e1dca620a8ee96bac5f /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
parent554f786e284a6ce859d51f62240d615603944c8e (diff)
parent480c93df5b99699390f93a7024c9f60d09da0e96 (diff)
Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/ftrace-merge
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c18
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 7be47d1a97e..9c4294986af 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
pbase = (pte_t *)page_address(base);
paravirt_alloc_pte(&init_mm, page_to_pfn(base));
ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_clrhuge(*kpte));
+ /*
+ * If we ever want to utilize the PAT bit, we need to
+ * update this function to make sure it's converted from
+ * bit 12 to bit 7 when we cross from the 2MB level to
+ * the 4K level:
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(pgprot_val(ref_prot) & _PAGE_PAT_LARGE);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (level == PG_LEVEL_1G) {
@@ -515,6 +522,17 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
* primary protection behavior:
*/
__set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, __pgprot(_KERNPG_TABLE)));
+
+ /*
+ * Intel Atom errata AAH41 workaround.
+ *
+ * The real fix should be in hw or in a microcode update, but
+ * we also probabilistically try to reduce the window of having
+ * a large TLB mixed with 4K TLBs while instruction fetches are
+ * going on.
+ */
+ __flush_tlb_all();
+
base = NULL;
out_unlock: