Patch "x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 9ccee2373f0658f234727700e619df097ba57023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:01:19 -0700
Subject: x86/vm86/32: Switch to flush_tlb_mm_range() in mark_screen_rdonly()

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

commit 9ccee2373f0658f234727700e619df097ba57023 upstream.

mark_screen_rdonly() is the last remaining caller of flush_tlb().
flush_tlb_mm_range() is potentially faster and isn't obsolete.

Compile-tested only because I don't know whether software that uses
this mechanism even exists.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/791a644076fc3577ba7f7b7cafd643cc089baa7d.1492844372.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vm86_32.c
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static void mark_screen_rdonly(struct mm
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
 out:
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	flush_tlb();
+	flush_tlb_mm_range(mm, 0xA0000, 0xA0000 + 32*PAGE_SIZE, 0UL);
 }
 
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from luto@kernel.org are

queue-4.9/x86-vm86-32-switch-to-flush_tlb_mm_range-in-mark_screen_rdonly.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-make-flush_tlb_mm_range-more-predictable.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-remove-flush_tlb-and-flush_tlb_current_task.patch