3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleik...@oracle.com>

This fixes a race where a cpu may re-load a tlb from a stale tsb right
after it has been flushed by a remote function call.

I still see some instability when stressing the system with parallel
kernel builds while creating memory pressure by writing to
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages, but this patch improves the stability
significantly.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleik...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.pi...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ no_cache_flush:
        }
 
        if (!tb->active) {
-               global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr);
                flush_tsb_user_page(mm, vaddr);
+               global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr);
                goto out;
        }
 


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