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Commit c0452fb9 authored by John David Anglin's avatar John David Anglin Committed by Helge Deller
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parisc: Fix race in pci-dma.c



We are still troubled by occasional random segmentation faults and
memory memory corruption on SMP machines.  The causes quite a few
package builds to fail on the Debian buildd machines for parisc.  When
gcc-6 failed to build three times in a row, I looked again at the TLB
related code.  I found a couple of issues.  This is the first.

In general, we need to ensure page table updates and corresponding TLB
purges are atomic.  The attached patch fixes an instance in pci-dma.c
where the page table update was not guarded by the TLB lock.

Tested on rp3440 and c8000.  So far, no further random segmentation
faults have been observed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+
Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
parent 43b1f6ab
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