linux/arch/x86
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 74260714c5 xen: lock pte pages while pinning/unpinning
When a pagetable is created, it is made globally visible in the rmap
prio tree before it is pinned via arch_dup_mmap(), and remains in the
rmap tree while it is unpinned with arch_exit_mmap().

This means that other CPUs may race with the pinning/unpinning
process, and see a pte between when it gets marked RO and actually
pinned, causing any pte updates to fail with write-protect faults.

As a result, all pte pages must be properly locked, and only unlocked
once the pinning/unpinning process has finished.

In order to avoid taking spinlocks for the whole pagetable - which may
overflow the PREEMPT_BITS portion of preempt counter - it locks and pins
each pte page individually, and then finally pins the whole pagetable.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
2007-10-16 11:51:30 -07:00
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boot x86_64: move kernel 2007-10-11 11:17:24 +02:00
crypto x86_64: move crypto 2007-10-11 11:17:03 +02:00
ia32 i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86 2007-10-11 11:20:03 +02:00
kernel paravirt: clean up lazy mode handling 2007-10-16 11:51:29 -07:00
lib x86_64: move lib 2007-10-11 11:17:08 +02:00
mach-default i386: move mach-default 2007-10-11 11:16:48 +02:00
mach-es7000 i386: move mach-es7000 2007-10-11 11:16:50 +02:00
mach-generic Merge branch 'dmi-const' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6 2007-10-11 19:18:45 -07:00
mach-visws i386: move mach-visws 2007-10-11 11:16:38 +02:00
mach-voyager i386: move kernel 2007-10-11 11:17:01 +02:00
math-emu i386: move math-emu 2007-10-11 11:16:31 +02:00
mm remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init 2007-10-16 11:51:29 -07:00
oprofile i386: move oprofile 2007-10-11 11:16:55 +02:00
pci PCI: X86: Introduce and enable PCI domain support 2007-10-12 15:03:19 -07:00
power i386: move power 2007-10-11 11:16:34 +02:00
vdso x86_64: move vdso 2007-10-11 11:17:10 +02:00
video i386: move video 2007-10-11 11:16:56 +02:00
xen xen: lock pte pages while pinning/unpinning 2007-10-16 11:51:30 -07:00