find a fix for a pretty serious global_flush_tlb() x86-64 bug below,
-stable candidate too i think.
Linus, please pull this fix from the x86 git tree:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-x86.git
|
| Ingo Molnar (1):
| x86: fix global_flush_tlb() bug
thanks,
Ingo
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Subject: x86: fix global_flush_tlb() bug
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
While we were reviewing pageattr_32/64.c for unification,
Thomas Gleixner noticed the following serious SMP bug in
global_flush_tlb():
down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
this is SMP-unsafe because list_replace_init() done on two CPUs in
parallel can corrupt the list.
This bug has been introduced about a year ago in the 64-bit tree:
commit ea7322decb974a4a3e804f96a0201e893ff88ce3
Author: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu Dec 7 02:14:05 2006 +0100
[PATCH] x86-64: Speed and clean up cache flushing in change_page_attr
down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
- dpage = xchg(&deferred_pages, NULL);
+ list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
the xchg() based version was SMP-safe, but list_replace_init() is not.
So this "cleanup" introduced a nasty bug.
why this bug never become prominent is a mystery - it can probably be
explained with the (still) relative obscurity of the x86_64 architecture.
the safe fix for now is to write-lock init_mm.mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
+++ linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c
@@ -255,9 +255,14 @@ void global_flush_tlb(void)
struct page *pg, *next;
struct list_head l;
- down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
+ /*
+ * Write-protect the semaphore, to exclude two contexts
+ * doing a list_replace_init() call in parallel and to
+ * exclude new additions to the deferred_pages list:
+ */
+ down_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l);
- up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
+ up_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
flush_map(&l);
-
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