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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h index 0c76675394c5..35bec1c5bd5a 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ static inline void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, /* Mark this context has been used on the new CPU */ if (!cpumask_test_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(next))) { cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), mm_cpumask(next)); + + /* + * This full barrier orders the store to the cpumask above vs + * a subsequent operation which allows this CPU to begin loading + * translations for next. + * + * When using the radix MMU that operation is the load of the + * MMU context id, which is then moved to SPRN_PID. + * + * For the hash MMU it is either the first load from slb_cache + * in switch_slb(), and/or the store of paca->mm_ctx_id in + * copy_mm_to_paca(). + * + * On the read side the barrier is in pte_xchg(), which orders + * the store to the PTE vs the load of mm_cpumask. + */ + smp_mb(); + new_on_cpu = true; } |
