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| author |   Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-06-20 14:30:23 +0530 |
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| committer |   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2013-06-21 16:01:56 +1000 |
| commit | 7888b4ddb44dccd68bc20d0dc4425707dff88c72 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d9b5d74f6f51255fe06649511bf39d1a0516356 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
| parent | powerpc: Make linux pagetable walk safe with THP enabled (diff) | |
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powerpc: Prevent gcc to re-read the pagetables
GCC is very likely to read the pagetables just once and cache them in
the local stack or in a register, but it is can also decide to re-read
the pagetables. The problem is that the pagetable in those places can
change from under gcc.
With THP/hugetlbfs the pmd (and pgd for hugetlbfs giga pages) can
change under gup_fast. The pages won't be freed untill we finish
gup fast because we have irq disabled and we free these pages via
rcu callback.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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