This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/mm: Add comments to clarify which TLB-flush functions are supposed to flush what
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-mm-add-comments-to-clarify-which-tlb-flush-functions-are-supposed-to-flush-what.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 3f67af51e56f291d7417d77c4f67cd774633c5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:34:52 +0100 Subject: x86/mm: Add comments to clarify which TLB-flush functions are supposed to flush what
From: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org
commit 3f67af51e56f291d7417d77c4f67cd774633c5e1 upstream.
Per popular request..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Cc: Andy Lutomirski luto@kernel.org Cc: Boris Ostrovsky boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Brian Gerst brgerst@gmail.com Cc: Dave Hansen dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Cc: David Laight David.Laight@aculab.com Cc: Denys Vlasenko dvlasenk@redhat.com Cc: Eduardo Valentin eduval@amazon.com Cc: Greg KH gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com Cc: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com Cc: aliguori@amazon.com Cc: daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: keescook@google.com Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h @@ -228,6 +228,9 @@ static inline void cr4_set_bits_and_upda
extern void initialize_tlbstate_and_flush(void);
+/* + * flush the entire current user mapping + */ static inline void __native_flush_tlb(void) { /* @@ -240,6 +243,9 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb(vo preempt_enable(); }
+/* + * flush everything + */ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void) { unsigned long cr4, flags; @@ -269,17 +275,27 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_gl raw_local_irq_restore(flags); }
+/* + * flush one page in the user mapping + */ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_single(unsigned long addr) { asm volatile("invlpg (%0)" ::"r" (addr) : "memory"); }
+/* + * flush everything + */ static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void) { - if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) + if (boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PGE)) { __flush_tlb_global(); - else + } else { + /* + * !PGE -> !PCID (setup_pcid()), thus every flush is total. + */ __flush_tlb(); + }
/* * Note: if we somehow had PCID but not PGE, then this wouldn't work -- @@ -290,6 +306,9 @@ static inline void __flush_tlb_all(void) */ }
+/* + * flush one page in the kernel mapping + */ static inline void __flush_tlb_one(unsigned long addr) { count_vm_tlb_event(NR_TLB_LOCAL_FLUSH_ONE);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peterz@infradead.org are
queue-4.14/x86-entry-rename-sysenter_stack-to-cpu_entry_area_entry_stack.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-put-mmu-to-hardware-asid-translation-in-one-place.patch queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-explicitly-set-_page_user-in-the-pagetable-hierarchy.patch queue-4.14/x86-uv-use-the-right-tlb-flush-api.patch queue-4.14/x86-decoder-fix-and-update-the-opcodes-map.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-check-page_present-for-real.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-prevent-ldt-inheritance-on-exec.patch queue-4.14/x86-microcode-dont-abuse-the-tlb-flush-interface.patch queue-4.14/x86-doc-remove-obvious-weirdnesses-from-the-x86-mm-layout-documentation.patch queue-4.14/init-invoke-init_espfix_bsp-from-mm_init.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-to-a-separate-unit.patch queue-4.14/x86-vsyscall-64-warn-and-fail-vsyscall-emulation-in-native-mode.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-create-asm-invpcid.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-superfluous-barriers.patch queue-4.14/x86-ldt-rework-locking.patch queue-4.14/arch-mm-allow-arch_dup_mmap-to-fail.patch queue-4.14/x86-cpu_entry_area-move-it-out-of-the-fixmap.patch queue-4.14/tools-headers-sync-objtool-uapi-header.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-remove-hard-coded-asid-limit-checks.patch queue-4.14/x86-kconfig-limit-nr_cpus-on-32-bit-to-a-sane-amount.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-64-bit-build-on-32-bit-host.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-add-comments-to-clarify-which-tlb-flush-functions-are-supposed-to-flush-what.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-move-the-cr3-construction-functions-to-tlbflush.h.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-dump_pagetables-make-the-address-hints-correct-and-readable.patch queue-4.14/x86-insn-eval-add-utility-functions-to-get-segment-selector.patch queue-4.14/objtool-move-synced-files-to-their-original-relative-locations.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-use-__flush_tlb_one-for-kernel-memory.patch queue-4.14/objtool-move-kernel-headers-code-sync-check-to-a-script.patch queue-4.14/x86-mm-64-improve-the-memory-map-documentation.patch queue-4.14/objtool-fix-cross-build.patch