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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c index be4ab3d73c91..7fc1b35a6746 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ static unsigned long shared_pte_mask = L_PTE_CACHEABLE; /* * We take the easy way out of this problem - we make the * PTE uncacheable. However, we leave the write buffer on. + * + * Note that the pte lock held when calling update_mmu_cache must also + * guard the pte (somewhere else in the same mm) that we modify here. + * Therefore those configurations which might call adjust_pte (those + * without CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT) cannot support split page_table_lock. */ static int adjust_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address) { @@ -127,7 +132,7 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page); * 2. If we have multiple shared mappings of the same space in * an object, we need to deal with the cache aliasing issues. * - * Note that the page_table_lock will be held. + * Note that the pte lock will be held. */ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t pte) { |