From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:05:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH v4 5/7] ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing In-Reply-To: <1365790327-2138-6-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> References: <1365790327-2138-1-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> <1365790327-2138-6-git-send-email-marc.zyngier@arm.com> Message-ID: <20130426110558.GE5007@localhost.cambridge.arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 07:12:05PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote: > diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c > index bfc5927..7464824 100644 > --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c > +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c ... > +static void clear_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd) > +{ > + pte_t *pte_table = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, 0); > + pmd_clear(pmd); > + pte_free_kernel(NULL, pte_table); > + put_page(virt_to_page(pmd)); > +} ... > static void unmap_stage2_range(struct kvm *kvm, phys_addr_t start, u64 size) Is there a chance that this function (or the other unmapping function for Hyp pages) is called on an active stage 2 table (VTTBR pointing to this pgd)? If yes, than you probably have to follow the mmu_gather mechanism of freeing page table pages to avoid speculative loads. Basically flushing the TLB between pmd_clear and pte_free_kernel. -- Catalin