3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 18f38132528c3e603c66ea464727b29e9bbcb91b ] The assumption was that update_mmu_cache() (and the equivalent for PMDs) would only be called when the PTE being installed will be accessible by the user. This is not true for code paths originating from remove_migration_pte(). There are dire consequences for placing a non-valid PTE into the TSB. The TLB miss frramework assumes thatwhen a TSB entry matches we can just load it into the TLB and return from the TLB miss trap. So if a non-valid PTE is in there, we will deadlock taking the TLB miss over and over, never satisfying the miss. Just exit early from update_mmu_cache() and friends in this situation. Based upon a report and patch from Christopher Alexander Tobias Schulze. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c @@ -350,6 +350,10 @@ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_str mm = vma->vm_mm; + /* Don't insert a non-valid PTE into the TSB, we'll deadlock. */ + if (!pte_accessible(mm, pte)) + return; + spin_lock_irqsave(&mm->context.lock, flags); #if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) || defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) @@ -2614,6 +2618,10 @@ void update_mmu_cache_pmd(struct vm_area pte = pmd_val(entry); + /* Don't insert a non-valid PMD into the TSB, we'll deadlock. */ + if (!(pte & _PAGE_VALID)) + return; + /* We are fabricating 8MB pages using 4MB real hw pages. */ pte |= (addr & (1UL << REAL_HPAGE_SHIFT)); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html