On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > From: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> > > While looking at invlpg out of sync code with Izik I think I noticed a > missing smp tlb flush here. Without this the other cpu can still write > to a freed host physical page. tlb smp flush must happen if > rmap_remove is called always before mmu_lock is released because the > VM will take the mmu_lock before it can finally add the page to the > freelist after swapout. mmu notifier makes it safe to flush the tlb > after freeing the page (otherwise it would never be safe) so we can do > a single flush for multiple sptes invalidated.
I think this fix is more expensive than it needs to be, but better than being unsafe for now. Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
