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Subject[patch 30/50] x86: prevent PGE flush from interruption/preemption
-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

upstream commit: b1979a5fda7869a790f4fd83fb06c78498d26ba1

CR4 manipulation is not protected against interrupts and preemption,
but KVM uses smp_function_call to manipulate the X86_CR4_VMXE bit
either from the CPU hotplug code or from the kvm_init call.

We need to protect the CR4 manipulation from both interrupts and
preemption.

Original bug report: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/7/48
Bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10642

This is not a regression from 2.6.25, it's a long standing and hard to
trigger bug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
---
include/asm-x86/tlbflush.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/asm-x86/tlbflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/tlbflush.h
@@ -22,12 +22,23 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb(vo

static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
{
- unsigned long cr4 = read_cr4();
+ unsigned long flags;
+ unsigned long cr4;

+ /*
+ * Read-modify-write to CR4 - protect it from preemption and
+ * from interrupts. (Use the raw variant because this code can
+ * be called from deep inside debugging code.)
+ */
+ raw_local_irq_save(flags);
+
+ cr4 = read_cr4();
/* clear PGE */
write_cr4(cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PGE);
/* write old PGE again and flush TLBs */
write_cr4(cr4);
+
+ raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
}

static inline void __native_flush_tlb_single(unsigned long addr)
--


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