From: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:37:29 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode
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x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode

commit 4981d01eada5354d81c8929d5b2836829ba3df7b upstream.

According to intel CPU manual, every time PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE
mode, we need do a full TLB flush. Current code follows this and there is
comment for this too in the code.

But current code misses the multi-threaded case. A changed page table
might be used by several CPUs, every such CPU should flush TLB. Usually
this isn't a problem, because we prepopulate all PGD entries at process
fork. But when the process does munmap and follows new mmap, this issue
will be triggered.

When it happens, some CPUs keep doing page faults:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129915020508238&w=2

Reported-by: Yasunori Goto<y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Yasunori Goto<y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mallick Asit K <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
LKML-Reference: <1300246649.2337.95.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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