linux/arch
Martin Schwidefsky cd94154cc6 [S390] fix tlb flushing for page table pages
Git commit 36409f6353 "use generic RCU
page-table freeing code" introduced a tlb flushing bug. Partially revert
the above git commit and go back to s390 specific page table flush code.

For s390 the TLB can contain three types of entries, "normal" TLB
page-table entries, TLB combined region-and-segment-table (CRST) entries
and real-space entries. Linux does not use real-space entries which
leaves normal TLB entries and CRST entries. The CRST entries are
intermediate steps in the page-table translation called translation paths.
For example a 4K page access in a three-level page table setup will
create two CRST TLB entries and one page-table TLB entry. The advantage
of that approach is that a page access next to the previous one can reuse
the CRST entries and needs just a single read from memory to create the
page-table TLB entry. The disadvantage is that the TLB flushing rules are
more complicated, before any page-table may be freed the TLB needs to be
flushed.

In short: the generic RCU page-table freeing code is incorrect for the
CRST entries, in particular the check for mm_users < 2 is troublesome.

This is applicable to 3.0+ kernels.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-04-11 14:28:24 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-04-05 15:30:34 -07:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 3.4-rc2 2012-04-05 22:13:39 -07:00
avr32 avr32: fix nop compile fails from system.h split up 2012-04-04 08:23:44 -07:00
blackfin blackfin: update defconfig for bf527-ezkit 2012-04-06 10:25:03 +08:00
c6x Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb) 2012-04-05 15:30:34 -07:00
cris Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
frv frv: fix warnings in mb93090-mb00/pci-dma.c about implicit EXPORT_SYMBOL 2012-04-02 14:41:26 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
m68k m68k/q40: Add missing platform check before registering platform devices 2012-04-01 22:57:53 +02:00
microblaze Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
mips Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
openrisc Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h 2012-03-28 15:58:21 -07:00
parisc parisc: fix missing cmpxchg file error from system.h split 2012-04-02 14:41:26 -07:00
powerpc Merge branch 'kvm-updates/3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2012-04-07 09:53:33 -07:00
s390 [S390] fix tlb flushing for page table pages 2012-04-11 14:28:24 +02:00
score Delete all instances of asm/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
sh SuperH updates for 3.4-rc1 2012-04-07 09:52:46 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2012-04-10 10:28:26 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 2012-04-06 17:56:20 -07:00
um um: uml_setup_stubs': warning: unused variable 'pages' 2012-04-10 00:13:45 +02:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping 2012-04-04 17:13:43 -07:00
x86 um: Use asm-generic/switch_to.h 2012-04-10 00:13:45 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'x86-x32-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-03-29 18:12:23 -07:00
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