Re: [PATCH 06/17] arm: mmu_gather rework

[Russell King]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:18:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:44 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> >   unmap_region()
> >     tlb_gather_mmu()
> >     unmap_vmas()
> >       for (; vma; vma = vma->vm_next)
> >         unmao_page_range()
> >           tlb_start_vma() -> flush cache range
> 
> So why is this correct? Can't we race with a concurrent access to the
> memory region (munmap() vs other thread access race)? While
> unmap_region() callers will have removed the vma from the tree so faults
> will not be satisfied, TLBs might still be present and allow us to
> access the memory and thereby reloading it in the cache.

It is my understanding that code sections between tlb_gather_mmu() and
tlb_finish_mmu() are non-preemptible - that was the case once upon a
time when this stuff first appeared.  If that's changed then that
change has introduced an unnoticed bug.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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