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author | David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> | 2005-07-25 22:23:00 -0700 |
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committer | Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 2005-08-12 15:05:21 -0700 |
commit | badea125d7cbd93f1678a95cf009b3bdfe6065cd (patch) | |
tree | c9cd47cfc5f7474fdf60735548734e647a4f7a9d /lib/rwsem-spinlock.c | |
parent | 7d69fa6266770eeb6317eddd46b64456e8a515bf (diff) |
[IA64] Fix race in mm-context wrap-around logic.
The patch below should fix a race which could cause stale TLB entries.
Specifically, when 2 CPUs ended up racing for entrance to
wrap_mmu_context(). The losing CPU would find that by the time it
acquired ctx.lock, mm->context already had a valid value, but then it
failed to (re-)check the delayed TLB flushing logic and hence could
end up using a context number when there were still stale entries in
its TLB. The fix is to check for delayed TLB flushes only after
mm->context is valid (non-zero). The patch also makes GCC v4.x
happier by defining a non-volatile variant of mm_context_t called
nv_mm_context_t.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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