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8265 Commits (4d88954d6246d7d43bb8903981731002179f1a1c)

Author SHA1 Message Date
Marcelo Tosatti 4d88954d62 KVM: MMU: make for_each_shadow_entry aware of largepages
This way there is no need to add explicit checks in every
for_each_shadow_entry user.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:55 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti e799794e02 KVM: VMX: more MSR_IA32_VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP capability bits
Required for EPT misconfiguration handler.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:55 +03:00
Andre Przywara 71db602322 KVM: Move performance counter MSR access interception to generic x86 path
The performance counter MSRs are different for AMD and Intel CPUs and they
are chosen mainly by the CPUID vendor string. This patch catches writes to
all addresses (regardless of VMX/SVM path) and handles them in the generic
MSR handler routine. Writing a 0 into the event select register is something
we perfectly emulate ;-), so don't print out a warning to dmesg in this
case.
This fixes booting a 64bit Windows guest with an AMD CPUID on an Intel host.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:54 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 2920d72857 KVM: MMU audit: largepage handling
Make the audit code aware of largepages.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:54 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 2aaf65e8c4 KVM: MMU audit: audit_mappings tweaks
- Fail early in case gfn_to_pfn returns is_error_pfn.
- For the pre pte write case, avoid spurious "gva is valid but spte is notrap"
  messages (the emulation code does the guest write first, so this particular
  case is OK).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:54 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 48fc03174b KVM: MMU audit: nontrapping ptes in nonleaf level
It is valid to set non leaf sptes as notrap.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:54 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti e58b0f9e0e KVM: MMU audit: update audit_write_protection
- Unsync pages contain writable sptes in the rmap.
- rmaps do not exclusively contain writable sptes anymore.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:53 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 08a3732bf2 KVM: MMU audit: update count_writable_mappings / count_rmaps
Under testing, count_writable_mappings returns a value that is 2 integers
larger than what count_rmaps returns.

Suspicion is that either of the two functions is counting a duplicate (either
positively or negatively).

Modifying check_writable_mappings_rmap to check for rmap existance on
all present MMU pages fails to trigger an error, which should keep Avi
happy.

Also introduce mmu_spte_walk to invoke a callback on all present sptes visible
to the current vcpu, might be useful in the future.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:53 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 776e663336 KVM: MMU: introduce is_last_spte helper
Hiding some of the last largepage / level interaction (which is useful
for gbpages and for zero based levels).

Also merge the PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL clearing loop in unlink_children.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:53 +03:00
Avi Kivity 3f5d18a965 KVM: Return to userspace on emulation failure
Instead of mindlessly retrying to execute the instruction, report the
failure to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 988a2cae6a KVM: Use macro to iterate over vcpus.
[christian: remove unused variables on s390]

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 73880c80aa KVM: Break dependency between vcpu index in vcpus array and vcpu_id.
Archs are free to use vcpu_id as they see fit. For x86 it is used as
vcpu's apic id. New ioctl is added to configure boot vcpu id that was
assumed to be 0 till now.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 1ed0ce000a KVM: Use pointer to vcpu instead of vcpu_id in timer code.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:52 +03:00
Gleb Natapov c5af89b68a KVM: Introduce kvm_vcpu_is_bsp() function.
Use it instead of open code "vcpu_id zero is BSP" assumption.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:51 +03:00
Avi Kivity d555c333aa KVM: MMU: s/shadow_pte/spte/
We use shadow_pte and spte inconsistently, switch to the shorter spelling.

Rename set_shadow_pte() to __set_spte() to avoid a conflict with the
existing set_spte(), and to indicate its lowlevelness.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:51 +03:00
Avi Kivity 43a3795a3a KVM: MMU: Adjust pte accessors to explicitly indicate guest or shadow pte
Since the guest and host ptes can have wildly different format, adjust
the pte accessor names to indicate on which type of pte they operate on.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:51 +03:00
Avi Kivity 439e218a6f KVM: MMU: Fix is_dirty_pte()
is_dirty_pte() is used on guest ptes, not shadow ptes, so it needs to avoid
shadow_dirty_mask and use PT_DIRTY_MASK instead.

Misdetecting dirty pages could lead to unnecessarily setting the dirty bit
under EPT.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:50 +03:00
Avi Kivity 7ffd92c53c KVM: VMX: Move rmode structure to vmx-specific code
rmode is only used in vmx, so move it to vmx.c

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:50 +03:00
Nitin A Kamble 3a624e29c7 KVM: VMX: Support Unrestricted Guest feature
"Unrestricted Guest" feature is added in the VMX specification.
Intel Westmere and onwards processors will support this feature.

    It allows kvm guests to run real mode and unpaged mode
code natively in the VMX mode when EPT is turned on. With the
unrestricted guest there is no need to emulate the guest real mode code
in the vm86 container or in the emulator. Also the guest big real mode
code works like native.

  The attached patch enhances KVM to use the unrestricted guest feature
if available on the processor. It also adds a new kernel/module
parameter to disable the unrestricted guest feature at the boot time.

Signed-off-by: Nitin A Kamble <nitin.a.kamble@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:49 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti fa40a8214b KVM: switch irq injection/acking data structures to irq_lock
Protect irq injection/acking data structures with a separate irq_lock
mutex. This fixes the following deadlock:

CPU A                               CPU B
kvm_vm_ioctl_deassign_dev_irq()
  mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);            worker_thread()
  -> kvm_deassign_irq()                -> kvm_assigned_dev_interrupt_work_handler()
    -> deassign_host_irq()               mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
      -> cancel_work_sync() [blocked]

[gleb: fix ia64 path]

Reported-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:49 +03:00
Marcelo Tosatti 9f4cc12765 KVM: Grab pic lock in kvm_pic_clear_isr_ack
isr_ack is protected by kvm_pic->lock.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:48 +03:00
Jan Kiszka 238adc7705 KVM: Cleanup LAPIC interface
None of the interface services the LAPIC emulation provides need to be
exported to modules, and kvm_lapic_get_base is even totally unused
today.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:48 +03:00
Avi Kivity 596ae89565 KVM: VMX: Fix reporting of unhandled EPT violations
Instead of returning -ENOTSUPP, exit normally but indicate the hardware
exit reason.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:46 +03:00
Avi Kivity 6de4f3ada4 KVM: Cache pdptrs
Instead of reloading the pdptrs on every entry and exit (vmcs writes on vmx,
guest memory access on svm) extract them on demand.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:46 +03:00
Avi Kivity 8f5d549f02 KVM: VMX: Simplify pdptr and cr3 management
Instead of reading the PDPTRs from memory after every exit (which is slow
and wrong, as the PDPTRs are stored on the cpu), sync the PDPTRs from
memory to the VMCS before entry, and from the VMCS to memory after exit.
Do the same for cr3.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:46 +03:00
Avi Kivity 2d84e993a8 KVM: VMX: Avoid duplicate ept tlb flush when setting cr3
vmx_set_cr3() will call vmx_tlb_flush(), which will flush the ept context.
So there is no need to call ept_sync_context() explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:46 +03:00
Gregory Haskins 6b66ac1ae3 KVM: do not register i8254 PIO regions until we are initialized
We currently publish the i8254 resources to the pio_bus before the devices
are fully initialized.  Since we hold the pit_lock, its probably not
a real issue.  But lets clean this up anyway.

Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:45 +03:00
Gregory Haskins d76685c4a0 KVM: cleanup io_device code
We modernize the io_device code so that we use container_of() instead of
dev->private, and move the vtable to a separate ops structure
(theoretically allows better caching for multiple instances of the same
ops structure)

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:45 +03:00
Avi Kivity 6c8166a77c KVM: SVM: Fold kvm_svm.h info svm.c
kvm_svm.h is only included from svm.c, so fold it in.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:44 +03:00
Andre Przywara 017cb99e87 KVM: SVM: use explicit 64bit storage for sysenter values
Since AMD does not support sysenter in 64bit mode, the VMCB fields storing
the MSRs are truncated to 32bit upon VMRUN/#VMEXIT. So store the values
in a separate 64bit storage to avoid truncation.

[andre: fix amd->amd migration]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <christoph.egger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:43 +03:00
Jan Kiszka c5ff41ce66 KVM: Allow PIT emulation without speaker port
The in-kernel speaker emulation is only a dummy and also unneeded from
the performance point of view. Rather, it takes user space support to
generate sound output on the host, e.g. console beeps.

To allow this, introduce KVM_CREATE_PIT2 which controls in-kernel
speaker port emulation via a flag passed along the new IOCTL. It also
leaves room for future extensions of the PIT configuration interface.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Gregory Haskins 721eecbf4f KVM: irqfd
KVM provides a complete virtual system environment for guests, including
support for injecting interrupts modeled after the real exception/interrupt
facilities present on the native platform (such as the IDT on x86).
Virtual interrupts can come from a variety of sources (emulated devices,
pass-through devices, etc) but all must be injected to the guest via
the KVM infrastructure.  This patch adds a new mechanism to inject a specific
interrupt to a guest using a decoupled eventfd mechnanism:  Any legal signal
on the irqfd (using eventfd semantics from either userspace or kernel) will
translate into an injected interrupt in the guest at the next available
interrupt window.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Avi Kivity 0ba12d1081 KVM: Move common KVM Kconfig items to new file virt/kvm/Kconfig
Reduce Kconfig code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Gleb Natapov 787ff73637 KVM: Drop interrupt shadow when single stepping should be done only on VMX
The problem exists only on VMX. Also currently we skip this step if
there is pending exception. The patch fixes this too.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:41 +03:00
Christoph Hellwig 284e9b0f5a KVM: cleanup arch/x86/kvm/Makefile
Use proper foo-y style list additions to cleanup all the conditionals,
move module selection after compound object selection and remove the
superflous comment.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:40 +03:00
Avi Kivity ee3d29e8be KVM: x86 emulator: fix jmp far decoding (opcode 0xea)
The jump target should not be sign extened; use an unsigned decode flag.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:40 +03:00
Avi Kivity c9eaf20f26 KVM: x86 emulator: Implement zero-extended immediate decoding
Absolute jumps use zero extended immediate operands.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:39 +03:00
Mark McLoughlin cb007648de KVM: fix cpuid E2BIG handling for extended request types
If we run out of cpuid entries for extended request types
we should return -E2BIG, just like we do for the standard
request types.

Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:39 +03:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput 60af2ecdc5 KVM: Use MSR names in place of address
Replace 0xc0010010 with MSR_K8_SYSCFG and 0xc0010015 with MSR_K7_HWCR.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:39 +03:00
Huang Ying 890ca9aefa KVM: Add MCE support
The related MSRs are emulated. MCE capability is exported via
extension KVM_CAP_MCE and ioctl KVM_X86_GET_MCE_CAP_SUPPORTED.  A new
vcpu ioctl command KVM_X86_SETUP_MCE is used to setup MCE emulation
such as the mcg_cap. MCE is injected via vcpu ioctl command
KVM_X86_SET_MCE. Extended machine-check state (MCG_EXT_P) and CMCI are
not implemented.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:39 +03:00
Jaswinder Singh Rajput af24a4e4ae KVM: Replace MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER with MSR_IA32_TSC of msr-index.h
Use standard msr-index.h's MSR declaration.

MSR_IA32_TSC is better than MSR_IA32_TIME_STAMP_COUNTER as it also solves
80 column issue.

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:38 +03:00
Gleb Natapov ae0bb3e011 KVM: VMX: Properly handle software interrupt re-injection in real mode
When reinjecting a software interrupt or exception, use the correct
instruction length provided by the hardware instead of a hardcoded 1.

Fixes problems running the suse 9.1 livecd boot loader.

Problem introduced by commit f0a3602c20 ("KVM: Move interrupt injection
logic to x86.c").

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:32:38 +03:00
Yinghai Lu 295594e9cf x86: Fix vSMP boot crash
2.6.31-rc7 does not boot on vSMP systems:

[    8.501108] CPU31: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1)
[    8.501127] CPU 31 MCA banks SHD:2 SHD:3 SHD:5 SHD:6 SHD:8
[    8.650254] CPU31: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5540  @ 2.53GHz stepping 04
[    8.710324] Brought up 32 CPUs
[    8.713916] Total of 32 processors activated (162314.96 BogoMIPS).
[    8.721489] ERROR: parent span is not a superset of domain->span
[    8.727686] ERROR: domain->groups does not contain CPU0
[    8.733091] ERROR: groups don't span domain->span
[    8.737975] ERROR: domain->cpu_power not set
[    8.742416]

Ravikiran Thirumalai bisected it to:

| commit 2759c3287d
| x86: don't call read_apic_id if !cpu_has_apic

The problem is that on vSMP systems the CPUID derived
initial-APICIDs are overlapping - so we need to fall
back on hard_smp_processor_id() which reads the local
APIC.

Both come from the hardware (influenced by firmware
though) so it's a tough call which one to trust.

Doing the quirk expresses the vSMP property properly
and also does not affect other systems, so we go for
this solution instead of a revert.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A944D3C.5030100@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-26 10:13:17 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin 7adb4df410 x86, xen: Initialize cx to suppress warning
Initialize cx before calling xen_cpuid(), in order to suppress the
"may be used uninitialized in this function" warning.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
2009-08-25 21:10:32 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge d560bc6157 x86, xen: Suppress WP test on Xen
Xen always runs on CPUs which properly support WP enforcement in
privileged mode, so there's no need to test for it.

This also works around a crash reported by Arnd Hannemann, though I
think its just a band-aid for that case.

Reported-by: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-25 21:10:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 44afa9a4b8 Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  clockevent: Prevent dead lock on clockevents_lock
  timers: Drop write permission on /proc/timer_list
2009-08-25 11:24:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 9f459fadbb Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix build with older binutils and consolidate linker script
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: add vmlinux.lds to targets in arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
  xen: rearrange things to fix stackprotector
  x86: make sure load_percpu_segment has no stackprotector
  i386: Fix section mismatches for init code with !HOTPLUG_CPU
  x86, pat: Allow ISA memory range uncacheable mapping requests
2009-08-25 11:23:25 -07:00
Jan Beulich c62e43202e x86: Fix build with older binutils and consolidate linker script
binutils prior to 2.17 can't deal with the currently possible
situation of a new segment following the per-CPU segment, but
that new segment being empty - objcopy misplaces the .bss (and
perhaps also the .brk) sections outside of any segment.

However, the current ordering of sections really just appears
to be the effect of cumulative unrelated changes; re-ordering
things allows to easily guarantee that the segment following
the per-CPU one is non-empty, and at once eliminates the need
for the bogus data.init2 segment.

Once touching this code, also use the various data section
helper macros from include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.

-v2: fix !SMP builds.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A94085D02000078000119A5@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-25 15:54:16 +02:00
Amerigo Wang a6a06f7b57 x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
This line looks suspicious, because if this is true, then the
'flags' parameter of function reserve_bootmem_generic() will be
unused when !CONFIG_NUMA. I don't think this is what we want.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
LKML-Reference: <20090821083709.5098.52505.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-24 20:22:55 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b04e6373d6 x86: don't call '->send_IPI_mask()' with an empty mask
As noted in 83d349f35e ("x86: don't send
an IPI to the empty set of CPU's"), some APIC's will be very unhappy
with an empty destination mask.  That commit added a WARN_ON() for that
case, and avoided the resulting problem, but didn't fix the underlying
reason for why those empty mask cases happened.

This fixes that, by checking the result of 'cpumask_andnot()' of the
current CPU actually has any other CPU's left in the set of CPU's to be
sent a TLB flush, and not calling down to the IPI code if the mask is
empty.

The reason this started happening at all is that we started passing just
the CPU mask pointers around in commit 4595f9620 ("x86: change
flush_tlb_others to take a const struct cpumask"), and when we did that,
the cpumask was no longer thread-local.

Before that commit, flush_tlb_mm() used to create it's own copy of
'mm->cpu_vm_mask' and pass that copy down to the low-level flush
routines after having tested that it was not empty.  But after changing
it to just pass down the CPU mask pointer, the lower level TLB flush
routines would now get a pointer to that 'mm->cpu_vm_mask', and that
could still change - and become empty - after the test due to other
CPU's having flushed their own TLB's.

See

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13933

for details.

Tested-by: Thomas Björnell <thomas.bjornell@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-21 09:48:10 -07:00