This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled KVM: s390/mm: Fix page table locking vs. split pmd lock to the 3.16-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: kvm-s390-mm-fix-page-table-locking-vs.-split-pmd-lock.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 55e4283c3eb1d850893f645dd695c9c75d5fa1fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:23:29 +0200 Subject: KVM: s390/mm: Fix page table locking vs. split pmd lock From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 55e4283c3eb1d850893f645dd695c9c75d5fa1fc upstream. commit ec66ad66a0de87866be347b5ecc83bd46427f53b (s390/mm: enable split page table lock for PMD level) activated the split pmd lock for s390. Turns out that we missed one place: We also have to take the pmd lock instead of the page table lock when we reallocate the page tables (==> changing entries in the PMD) during sie enablement. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c @@ -1279,6 +1279,7 @@ static unsigned long page_table_realloc_ { unsigned long next, *table, *new; struct page *page; + spinlock_t *ptl; pmd_t *pmd; pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); @@ -1296,7 +1297,7 @@ again: if (!new) return -ENOMEM; - spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); + ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd); if (likely((unsigned long *) pmd_deref(*pmd) == table)) { /* Nuke pmd entry pointing to the "short" page table */ pmdp_flush_lazy(mm, addr, pmd); @@ -1310,7 +1311,7 @@ again: page_table_free_rcu(tlb, table); new = NULL; } - spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); + spin_unlock(ptl); if (new) { page_table_free_pgste(new); goto again; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.16/kvm-s390-mm-fix-page-table-locking-vs.-split-pmd-lock.patch -- 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