Skip to content
Commit 111fe718 authored by Nicholas Piggin's avatar Nicholas Piggin Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment

I'm not sure if I'm completely missing something here, but AFAIKS the
reference to the mysterious "COW SMC race" confuses the issue.  The
original changelog and mailing list thread didn't help me either.

This SMC race is where the problem was detected, but isn't the general
problem bigger and more obvious: that the new PTE could be picked up at
any time by any TLB while entries for the old PTE exist in other TLBs
before the TLB flush takes effect?

The case where the iTLB and dTLB of a CPU are pointing at different pages
is an interesting one but follows from the general problem.

The other (minor) thing with the comment I think it makes it a bit clearer
to say what the old code was doing (i.e., it avoids the race as opposed to
what?).

References: 4ce072f1 ("mm: fix a race condition under SMC + COW")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201215121119.351650-1-npiggin@gmail.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e05986ee
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment