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authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2008-10-28 11:10:15 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-10-28 11:12:03 +0100
commit250cf776f74b5932a1977d0489cae9206e2351dd (patch)
tree71bb6778e65e8efbdd0cac09a64e4e1194b98c3f /usr
parent2c78091405d6f54748b1fac78c45f2a799e3073a (diff)
[S390] pgtables: Fix race in enable_sie vs. page table ops
The current enable_sie code sets the mm->context.pgstes bit to tell dup_mm that the new mm should have extended page tables. This bit is also used by the s390 specific page table primitives to decide about the page table layout - which means context.pgstes has two meanings. This can cause any kind of bugs. For example - e.g. shrink_zone can call ptep_clear_flush_young while enable_sie is running. ptep_clear_flush_young will test for context.pgstes. Since enable_sie changed that value of the old struct mm without changing the page table layout ptep_clear_flush_young will do the wrong thing. The solution is to split pgstes into two bits - one for the allocation - one for the current state Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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