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authorTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2021-01-26 07:51:48 +0100
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2021-01-26 07:51:48 +0100
commit4f2da3324eaff382ab1c6aaef8c10180b2f4d08c (patch)
tree38dab378ba4ad014d83151f020cc1e5979be0d6d /mm/memory.c
parent6755568ad111394da224c823e8baf31a05a1469c (diff)
parent30e88d017fcbeb50c4b07577fe059558361067e7 (diff)
Merge tag 'tags/isa-void-remove-callback' into for-next
isa: Make the remove callback for isa drivers return void Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122092449.426097-1-uwe@kleine-koenig.org Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7d608765932b..feff48e1465a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2892,11 +2892,13 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+
/*
* Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
- * pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition
- * seen in the presence of one thread doing SMC and another
- * thread doing COW.
+ * pte with the new entry, to keep TLBs on different CPUs in
+ * sync. This code used to set the new PTE then flush TLBs, but
+ * that left a window where the new PTE could be loaded into
+ * some TLBs while the old PTE remains in others.
*/
ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, vmf->address, false);