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Commit 4981d01e authored by Shaohua Li's avatar Shaohua Li Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode

According to intel CPU manual, every time PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE
mode, we need do a full TLB flush. Current code follows this and there is
comment for this too in the code.

But current code misses the multi-threaded case. A changed page table
might be used by several CPUs, every such CPU should flush TLB. Usually
this isn't a problem, because we prepopulate all PGD entries at process
fork. But when the process does munmap and follows new mmap, this issue
will be triggered.

When it happens, some CPUs keep doing page faults:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129915020508238&w=2



Reported-by: default avatarYasunori <Goto&lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: default avatarYasunori <Goto&lt;y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua <Li&lt;shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mallick Asit K <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1300246649.2337.95.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent e8e999cf
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