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SubjectRe: [PATCH -rt] ARM TLB flush fix: don't forget to re-enable preemption
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On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:25 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:01 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> > Add a preempt_enable() to flush_tlb_kernel_page() since -rt4 patch
> > adds a preempt_disable but no preempt_enable().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
> >
> >
> > ---
> > include/asm-arm/tlbflush.h | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > Index: linux-2.6.21/include/asm-arm/tlbflush.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/asm-arm/tlbflush.h
> > +++ linux-2.6.21/include/asm-arm/tlbflush.h
> > @@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ static inline void local_flush_tlb_kerne
> > asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c8, c6, 1" : : "r" (kaddr) : "cc");
> > if (tlb_flag(TLB_V6_I_PAGE))
> > asm("mcr p15, 0, %0, c8, c5, 1" : : "r" (kaddr) : "cc");
>
> Aren't these mcr operations atomic?
>

Individually, yes. But the point of the preempt_disable/enable is to
make the whole sequence atomic.

Kevin

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