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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] x86/mm: Reinitialize TLB state on hotplug and resume
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> When Linux brings a CPU down and back up, it switches to init_mm and then
> loads swapper_pg_dir into CR3. With PCID enabled, this has the side effect
> of masking off the ASID bits in CR3.
>
> This can result in some confusion in the TLB handling code. If we
> bring a CPU down and back up with any ASID other than 0, we end up
> with the wrong ASID active on the CPU after resume. This could
> cause our internal state to become corrupt, although major
> corruption is unlikely because init_mm doesn't have any user pages.
> More obviously, if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y, we'll trip over an assertion
> in the next context switch. The result of *that* is a failure to
> resume from suspend with probability 1 - 1/6^(cpus-1).
>
> Fix it by reinitializing cpu_tlbstate on resume and CPU bringup.
>
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Reported-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
> Fixes: 10af6235e0d3 ("x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID")
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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