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| author | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2017-09-24 22:41:55 -0700 |
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| committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2017-09-24 22:41:55 -0700 |
| commit | 25eabb13c7d67ae32298015c5e28d00f604f412c (patch) | |
| tree | 5bd75c2c1e385c79425bb099f0d19db7fb9c391f /arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h | |
| parent | ab5348c9c23cd253f5902980d2d8fe067dc24c82 (diff) | |
| parent | e19b205be43d11bff638cad4487008c48d21c103 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'v4.14-rc2' into next-general
Linux 4.14-rc2
Sync to v4.14-rc2 for security subsystem developers to track.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h index c7797307fc2b..79a4ca6a9606 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h @@ -15,4 +15,18 @@ #include <asm-generic/tlb.h> +/* + * While x86 architecture in general requires an IPI to perform TLB + * shootdown, enablement code for several hypervisors overrides + * .flush_tlb_others hook in pv_mmu_ops and implements it by issuing + * a hypercall. To keep software pagetable walkers safe in this case we + * switch to RCU based table free (HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE). See the comment + * below 'ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE' in include/asm-generic/tlb.h + * for more details. + */ +static inline void __tlb_remove_table(void *table) +{ + free_page_and_swap_cache(table); +} + #endif /* _ASM_X86_TLB_H */ |