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;a=summary
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3f67af51e56f291d7417d77c4f67cd774633c5e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3f67af51e56f291d7417d77c4f67cd774633c5e1 upstream.
Per popular request..
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: daniel.gruss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hughd@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: keescook@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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