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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-01-25 11:19:46 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-01-25 11:19:46 +0100
commit0f8b29fabacbcf0e617896c7ea832b7ea2ef2406 (patch)
tree0187f2baef24b5d78d94aecc7057356a36c58b5d /mm/memory.c
parente71a8d5cf4b4f274740e31b601216071e2a11afa (diff)
parent6ee1d745b7c9fd573fba142a2efdad76a9f1cb04 (diff)
Merge 5.11-rc5 into tty-next
We need the fixes in here and this resolves a merge issue in drivers/tty/tty_io.c Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7d608765932b9..feff48e1465a6 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2892,11 +2892,13 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+
/*
* Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
- * pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition
- * seen in the presence of one thread doing SMC and another
- * thread doing COW.
+ * pte with the new entry, to keep TLBs on different CPUs in
+ * sync. This code used to set the new PTE then flush TLBs, but
+ * that left a window where the new PTE could be loaded into
+ * some TLBs while the old PTE remains in others.
*/
ptep_clear_flush_notify(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, vmf->address, false);