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parisc: Fix race in pci-dma.c

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We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and
memory memory corruption on SMP machines.  The causes quite a few
package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc.  When
gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB
related code.  I found a couple of issues.  This is the first.

In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TLB
purges are atomic.  The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c
where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.  So far, no further random segmentation
faults have been observed.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin  <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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John David Anglin 2016-11-24 20:06:32 -05:00 committed by Helge Deller
parent 43b1f6abd5
commit c0452fb9fb
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@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ static inline int map_pte_uncached(pte_t * pte,
if (!pte_none(*pte))
printk(KERN_ERR "map_pte_uncached: page already exists\n");
set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC));
purge_tlb_start(flags);
set_pte(pte, __mk_pte(*paddr_ptr, PAGE_KERNEL_UNC));
pdtlb_kernel(orig_vaddr);
purge_tlb_end(flags);
vaddr += PAGE_SIZE;