linux/arch/s390
Martin Schwidefsky 02a8f3abb7 s390/mm,tlb: safeguard against speculative TLB creation
The principles of operations states that the CPU is allowed to create
TLB entries for an address space anytime while an ASCE is loaded to
the control register. This is true even if the CPU is running in the
kernel and the user address space is not (actively) accessed.

In theory this can affect two aspects of the TLB flush logic.
For full-mm flushes the ASCE of the dying process is still attached.
The approach to flush first with IDTE and then just free all page
tables can in theory lead to stale TLB entries. Use the batched
free of page tables for the full-mm flushes as well.

For operations that can have a stale ASCE in the control register,
e.g. a delayed update_user_asce in switch_mm, load the kernel ASCE
to prevent invalid TLBs from being created.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2014-04-03 14:30:55 +02:00
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appldata s390/appldata_os: fix cpu array size calculation 2014-03-07 15:25:55 +01:00
boot s390/boot: Install bzImage as default kernel image 2013-11-15 14:08:36 +01:00
configs s390: update defconfigs 2014-03-17 15:52:57 +01:00
crypto crypto: s390 - fix des and des3_ede ctr concurrency issue 2014-01-30 21:45:14 +08:00
hypfs hypfs: Add clarification for "weight_min" attribute 2014-03-17 15:53:03 +01:00
include s390/mm,tlb: safeguard against speculative TLB creation 2014-04-03 14:30:55 +02:00
kernel s390/irq: Use defines for external interruption codes 2014-04-03 14:30:52 +02:00
kvm kvm/s390: also set guest pages back to stable on kexec/kdump 2014-04-01 09:23:38 +02:00
lib s390/bitops: fix comment 2014-02-21 08:50:20 +01:00
math-emu s390: fix save and restore of the floating-point-control register 2013-10-24 17:17:11 +02:00
mm s390/mm,tlb: safeguard against speculative TLB creation 2014-04-03 14:30:55 +02:00
net s390/bpf,jit: fix 32 bit divisions, use unsigned divide instructions 2014-01-17 18:54:49 -08:00
oprofile s390/irq: Use defines for external interruption codes 2014-04-03 14:30:52 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-03-31 14:35:30 -07:00
defconfig s390: update defconfigs 2014-03-17 15:52:57 +01:00
Kbuild s390/pci: base support 2012-11-30 15:40:45 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2014-03-31 14:35:30 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS 2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00
Makefile s390: allow to set gcc -mtune flag 2013-10-31 09:54:01 +01:00