[S390] fix tlb flushing for page table pages

Git commit 36409f6353 "use generic RCU
page-table freeing code" introduced a tlb flushing bug. Partially revert
the above git commit and go back to s390 specific page table flush code.

For s390 the TLB can contain three types of entries, "normal" TLB
page-table entries, TLB combined region-and-segment-table (CRST) entries
and real-space entries. Linux does not use real-space entries which
leaves normal TLB entries and CRST entries. The CRST entries are
intermediate steps in the page-table translation called translation paths.
For example a 4K page access in a three-level page table setup will
create two CRST TLB entries and one page-table TLB entry. The advantage
of that approach is that a page access next to the previous one can reuse
the CRST entries and needs just a single read from memory to create the
page-table TLB entry. The disadvantage is that the TLB flushing rules are
more complicated, before any page-table may be freed the TLB needs to be
flushed.

In short: the generic RCU page-table freeing code is incorrect for the
CRST entries, in particular the check for mm_users < 2 is troublesome.

This is applicable to 3.0+ kernels.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Martin Schwidefsky
2012-04-11 14:28:07 +02:00
parent b785e0d06a
commit cd94154cc6
4 changed files with 61 additions and 28 deletions

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@@ -22,10 +22,7 @@ void crst_table_free(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long *);
unsigned long *page_table_alloc(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long);
void page_table_free(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long *);
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
void page_table_free_rcu(struct mmu_gather *, unsigned long *);
void __tlb_remove_table(void *_table);
#endif
static inline void clear_table(unsigned long *s, unsigned long val, size_t n)
{