From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299318D0039 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:55:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:51:04 -0700 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH]x86: flush tlb if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode Message-ID: <20110316155104.GA25008@kroah.com> References: <1300246649.2337.95.camel@sli10-conroe> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1300246649.2337.95.camel@sli10-conroe> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Shaohua Li Cc: lkml , linux-mm , Rik van Riel , "Mallick, Asit K" , stable , y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:37:29AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote: > 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 will keep doing page fault. > > See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129915020508238&w=2 > > Reported-by: Yasunori Goto > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li > Tested-by: Yasunori Goto This is not how you submit something to the stable kernel tree. Please go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do it properly. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org