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    powerpc/mm: Fix some SMP issues with MMU context handling · 3035c863
    Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
    This patch fixes a couple of issues that can happen as a result
    of steal_context() dropping the context_lock when all possible
    PIDs are ineligible for stealing (hopefully an extremely hard to
    hit occurence).
    
    This case exposes the possibility of a stale context_mm[] entry
    to be seen since destroy_context() doesn't clear it and the free
    map isn't re-tested. It also means steal_context() will not notice
    a context freed while the lock was help, thus possibly trying to
    steal a context when a free one was available.
    
    This fixes it by always returning to the caller from steal_context
    when it dropped the lock with a return value that causes the
    caller to re-samble the number of free contexts, along with
    properly clearing the context_mm[] array for destroyed contexts.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    3035c863
mmu_context_nohash.c 10.7 KB