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From: "venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:x86/pat] x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:34:09 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-a5593e0b329a14dea41ea173380dbf1533de2bd2@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090409212708.512280000@intel.com>

Commit-ID:  a5593e0b329a14dea41ea173380dbf1533de2bd2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a5593e0b329a14dea41ea173380dbf1533de2bd2
Author:     venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:26:48 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:55:46 +0200

x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb

To be free of aliasing due to races, set_memory_* interfaces should
follow ordering of reserving, changing memtype to UC/WC, changing
memtype back to WB followed by free.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090409212708.512280000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index d71e1b6..d487eaa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -1021,15 +1021,19 @@ int _set_memory_wb(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
 
 int set_memory_wb(unsigned long addr, int numpages)
 {
+	int ret = _set_memory_wb(addr, numpages);
 	free_memtype(__pa(addr), __pa(addr) + numpages * PAGE_SIZE);
-
-	return _set_memory_wb(addr, numpages);
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_memory_wb);
 
 int set_memory_array_wb(unsigned long *addr, int addrinarray)
 {
 	int i;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = change_page_attr_clear(addr, addrinarray,
+				      __pgprot(_PAGE_CACHE_MASK), 1);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < addrinarray; i++) {
 		unsigned long start = __pa(addr[i]);
@@ -1042,8 +1046,7 @@ int set_memory_array_wb(unsigned long *addr, int addrinarray)
 		}
 		free_memtype(start, end);
 	}
-	return change_page_attr_clear(addr, addrinarray,
-				      __pgprot(_PAGE_CACHE_MASK), 1);
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_memory_array_wb);
 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-10 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-09 21:26 [patch 0/6] x86, PAT, CPA: Cleanups and minor bug fixes venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 1/6] x86, CPA: Change idmap attribute before ioremap attribute setup venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:33   ` [tip:x86/pat] " Suresh Siddha
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 2/6] x86, PAT: Change order of cpa and free in set_memory_wb venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:34   ` venkatesh.pallipadi [this message]
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 3/6] x86, PAT: Handle faults cleanly in set_memory_ APIs venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:34   ` [tip:x86/pat] " venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 4/6] x86, PAT: Changing memtype to WC ensuring no WB alias venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:34   ` [tip:x86/pat] " venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 5/6] x86, PAT: Consolidate code in pat_x_mtrr_type() and reserve_memtype() venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:34   ` [tip:x86/pat] " Suresh Siddha
2009-04-09 21:26 ` [patch 6/6] x86, PAT: Remove duplicate memtype reserve in devmem mmap venkatesh.pallipadi
2009-04-10 12:34   ` [tip:x86/pat] " Suresh Siddha
2009-04-10 11:53 ` [patch 0/6] x86, PAT, CPA: Cleanups and minor bug fixes Ingo Molnar
2009-04-10 17:31   ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-04-10 20:41 ` Eric Anholt
2009-04-11  7:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 20:11     ` Eric Anholt

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