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| author | Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> | 2011-02-16 15:45:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2011-03-10 09:41:57 +0100 |
| commit | a79e53d85683c6dd9f99c90511028adc2043031f (patch) | |
| tree | 191f423331b608a5f7f134f484ce62a9ee7fb4a6 /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | |
| parent | f86268549f424f83b9eb0963989270e14fbfc3de (diff) | |
x86/mm: Fix pgd_lock deadlock
It's forbidden to take the page_table_lock with the irq disabled
or if there's contention the IPIs (for tlb flushes) sent with
the page_table_lock held will never run leading to a deadlock.
Nobody takes the pgd_lock from irq context so the _irqsave can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <201102162345.p1GNjMjm021738@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index d343b3c81f3c..90825f2eb0f4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -57,12 +57,10 @@ static unsigned long direct_pages_count[PG_LEVEL_NUM]; void update_page_count(int level, unsigned long pages) { - unsigned long flags; - /* Protect against CPA */ - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); direct_pages_count[level] += pages; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); } static void split_page_count(int level) @@ -394,7 +392,7 @@ static int try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, struct cpa_data *cpa) { - unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, flags, addr, pfn; + unsigned long nextpage_addr, numpages, pmask, psize, addr, pfn; pte_t new_pte, old_pte, *tmp; pgprot_t old_prot, new_prot, req_prot; int i, do_split = 1; @@ -403,7 +401,7 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, if (cpa->force_split) return 1; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); /* * Check for races, another CPU might have split this page * up already: @@ -498,14 +496,14 @@ try_preserve_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, } out_unlock: - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); return do_split; } static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address) { - unsigned long flags, pfn, pfninc = 1; + unsigned long pfn, pfninc = 1; unsigned int i, level; pte_t *pbase, *tmp; pgprot_t ref_prot; @@ -519,7 +517,7 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address) if (!base) return -ENOMEM; - spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_lock(&pgd_lock); /* * Check for races, another CPU might have split this page * up for us already: @@ -591,7 +589,7 @@ out_unlock: */ if (base) __free_page(base); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags); + spin_unlock(&pgd_lock); return 0; } |