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authorJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>2009-09-03 12:56:02 -0500
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2009-09-09 14:05:24 -0700
commitfa526d0d641b5365676a1fb821ce359e217c9b85 (patch)
treefa08cded30f46df90fe103a750f412e306f2d53e /arch/x86
parenta269cca9926faf8e44b340b017be0d884203141b (diff)
x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
Fix address passed to cpa_flush_range() when changing page attributes from WB to UC. The address (*addr) is modified by __change_page_attr_set_clr(). The result is that the pages being flushed start at the _end_ of the changed range instead of the beginning. This should be considered for 2.6.30-stable and 2.6.31-stable. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Stable team <stable@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 7e600c1962d..e245775ec85 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -822,6 +822,7 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long *addr, int numpages,
{
struct cpa_data cpa;
int ret, cache, checkalias;
+ unsigned long baddr = 0;
/*
* Check, if we are requested to change a not supported
@@ -853,6 +854,11 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long *addr, int numpages,
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
}
+ /*
+ * Save address for cache flush. *addr is modified in the call
+ * to __change_page_attr_set_clr() below.
+ */
+ baddr = *addr;
}
/* Must avoid aliasing mappings in the highmem code */
@@ -900,7 +906,7 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long *addr, int numpages,
cpa_flush_array(addr, numpages, cache,
cpa.flags, pages);
} else
- cpa_flush_range(*addr, numpages, cache);
+ cpa_flush_range(baddr, numpages, cache);
} else
cpa_flush_all(cache);