linux/mm
Nick Piggin 5843d9a4d0 x86, pat: avoid highmem cache attribute aliasing
Highmem code can leave ptes and tlb entries around for a given page even after
kunmap, and after it has been freed.

>From what I can gather, the PAT code may change the cache attributes of
arbitrary physical addresses (ie. including highmem pages), which would result
in aliases in the case that it operates on one of these lazy tlb highmem
pages.

Flushing kmaps should solve the problem.

I've also just added code for conditional flushing if we haven't got
any dangling highmem aliases -- this should help performance if we
change page attributes frequently or systems that aren't using much
highmem pages (eg. if < 4G RAM). Should be turned into 2 patches, but
just for RFC...

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 17:22:57 +02:00
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allocpercpu.c mm/allocpercpu.c: make 4 functions static 2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
backing-dev.c mm: bdi: fix race in bdi_class device creation 2008-05-20 13:31:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data 2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
bounce.c block: Initial support for data-less (or empty) barrier support 2007-10-16 11:03:56 +02:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c xip: support non-struct page backed memory 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
filemap_xip.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
filemap.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
fremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
highmem.c x86, pat: avoid highmem cache attribute aliasing 2008-08-15 17:22:57 +02:00
hugetlb.c Revert duplicate "mm/hugetlb.c must #include <asm/io.h>" 2008-08-06 12:04:54 -07:00
internal.h mm: export prep_compound_page to mm 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Kconfig mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
maccess.c kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* 2008-04-17 20:05:39 +02:00
madvise.c madvise: update function comment of madvise_dontneed 2008-07-30 09:41:45 -07:00
Makefile mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: remove redundant check in move_task() 2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove 2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
memory.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
mempolicy.c hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size 2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
mempool.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
migrate.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
mincore.c mm: remove nopage 2008-04-28 08:58:18 -07:00
mlock.c mlock() fix return values 2008-08-04 16:58:45 -07:00
mm_init.c mm_init.c: avoid ifdef-inside-macro-expansion 2008-08-05 14:33:46 -07:00
mmap.c mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma_prepare callers 2008-08-05 14:33:50 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask 2008-04-28 08:58:19 -07:00
mprotect.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mremap.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c nommu: Provide vmalloc_exec(). 2008-08-04 16:01:47 +09:00
oom_kill.c oom_kill: remove unused parameter in badness() 2008-04-28 08:58:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: remove find_max_pfn_with_active_regions 2008-07-30 09:41:44 -07:00
page_io.c mm: fix PageUptodate data race 2008-02-05 09:44:19 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotremove: unset migrate type "ISOLATE" after removal 2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm: spinlock tree_lock 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c pdflush: use time_after() instead of open-coding it 2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL 2008-01-14 08:52:22 -08:00
readahead.c mm: readahead scan lockless 2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
rmap.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
shmem.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
slab.c mm: unexport ksize 2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
slob.c mm: unexport ksize 2008-07-29 23:44:26 +03:00
slub.c SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIAL 2008-08-05 09:28:47 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c Christoph has moved 2008-07-04 10:40:04 -07:00
sparse.c make mm/sparse.c: make a function static 2008-07-26 12:00:12 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
swap.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-03-25 08:57:47 -07:00
truncate.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
util.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
vmalloc.c Use WARN() in mm/vmalloc.c 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: rename page trylock 2008-08-04 21:31:34 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: proper externs 2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00