From patchwork Tue Jul 30 18:44:49 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 263469 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5CC2C00BD for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 04:45:51 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EvY-0005ua-KO; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:45:44 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EvM-0005rB-CP for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:45:32 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-231-162.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.231.162] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EvL-0006dr-PU; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:45:32 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V4EvJ-0000US-H6; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:45:29 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 45/75] sparc: tsb must be flushed before tlb Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:44:49 -0700 Message-Id: <1375209919-1768-12-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1375197464-27962-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1375197464-27962-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Dave Kleikamp , "David S. Miller" X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 3.8.13.6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Kleikamp commit 23a01138efe216f8084cfaa74b0b90dd4b097441 upstream. 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 Acked-by: Bob Picco Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c index 83d89bc..37e7bc4 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c @@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ static void tlb_batch_add_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vaddr, } if (!tb->active) { - global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr); flush_tsb_user_page(mm, vaddr); + global_flush_tlb_page(mm, vaddr); goto out; }