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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 123608531c8f..4db35544de73 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -620,7 +620,12 @@ static int __kprobes stop_machine_text_poke(void *data)
flush_icache_range((unsigned long)p->addr,
(unsigned long)p->addr + p->len);
}
-
+ /*
+ * Intel Archiecture Software Developer's Manual section 7.1.3 specifies
+ * that a core serializing instruction such as "cpuid" should be
+ * executed on _each_ core before the new instruction is made visible.
+ */
+ sync_core();
return 0;
}
@@ -671,7 +676,7 @@ void __kprobes text_poke_smp_batch(struct text_poke_param *params, int n)
atomic_set(&stop_machine_first, 1);
wrote_text = 0;
- stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
+ __stop_machine(stop_machine_text_poke, (void *)&tpp, NULL);
}
#if defined(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE) || defined(HAVE_JUMP_LABEL)
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