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authorRussell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk>2007-05-08 20:03:09 +0100
committerRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>2007-05-08 20:03:09 +0100
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[ARM] Fix ASID version switch
Close a hole in the ASID version switch, particularly the following scenario: CPU0 MM PID CPU1 MM PID idle A pid(A) A idle(lazy tlb) * new asid version triggered by B * B pid(B) A pid(A) * MM A gets new asid version * A idle(lazy tlb) A pid(A) * CPU1 doesn't see the new ASID * The result is that CPU1 continues running with the hardware set for the original (stale) ASID value, but mm->context.id contains the new ASID value. The result is that the next MM fault on CPU1 updates the page table entries, but flush_tlb_page() fails due to wrong ASID. There is a related case with a threaded application is allocated a new ASID on one CPU while another of its threads is running on some different CPU. This scenario is not fixed by this commit. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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