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authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>2008-04-28 02:13:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:25 -0700
commit8fe627ec5b7c47b1654dff50536d9709863295a3 (patch)
tree78511553eb4111224e89ef02a9436d0db382694b /include/asm-xtensa/bootparam.h
parent6d779079bfd1196e077bb1d0a906c37ae770b102 (diff)
hugetlbfs: add missing TLB flush to hugetlb_cow()
A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation. The old pte will remain in the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else. This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush() function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow(). ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390 implementation will come with our large page patch later. Other architectures should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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