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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h30
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c6
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c3
4 files changed, 24 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index 43876f16caf..cb00ccc7d57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -47,16 +47,26 @@ static inline void native_set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
* they can run pmd_offset_map_lock or pmd_trans_huge or other pmd
* operations.
*
- * Without THP if the mmap_sem is hold for reading, the
- * pmd can only transition from null to not null while pmd_read_atomic runs.
- * So there's no need of literally reading it atomically.
+ * Without THP if the mmap_sem is hold for reading, the pmd can only
+ * transition from null to not null while pmd_read_atomic runs. So
+ * we can always return atomic pmd values with this function.
*
* With THP if the mmap_sem is hold for reading, the pmd can become
- * THP or null or point to a pte (and in turn become "stable") at any
- * time under pmd_read_atomic, so it's mandatory to read it atomically
- * with cmpxchg8b.
+ * trans_huge or none or point to a pte (and in turn become "stable")
+ * at any time under pmd_read_atomic. We could read it really
+ * atomically here with a atomic64_read for the THP enabled case (and
+ * it would be a whole lot simpler), but to avoid using cmpxchg8b we
+ * only return an atomic pmdval if the low part of the pmdval is later
+ * found stable (i.e. pointing to a pte). And we're returning a none
+ * pmdval if the low part of the pmd is none. In some cases the high
+ * and low part of the pmdval returned may not be consistent if THP is
+ * enabled (the low part may point to previously mapped hugepage,
+ * while the high part may point to a more recently mapped hugepage),
+ * but pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad() only needs the low part
+ * of the pmd to be read atomically to decide if the pmd is unstable
+ * or not, with the only exception of when the low part of the pmd is
+ * zero in which case we return a none pmd.
*/
-#ifndef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
static inline pmd_t pmd_read_atomic(pmd_t *pmdp)
{
pmdval_t ret;
@@ -74,12 +84,6 @@ static inline pmd_t pmd_read_atomic(pmd_t *pmdp)
return (pmd_t) { ret };
}
-#else /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
-static inline pmd_t pmd_read_atomic(pmd_t *pmdp)
-{
- return (pmd_t) { atomic64_read((atomic64_t *)pmdp) };
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
static inline void native_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
index 47acaf31916..32856fa4384 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c
@@ -491,14 +491,16 @@ static inline void nmi_nesting_preprocess(struct pt_regs *regs)
*/
if (unlikely(is_debug_stack(regs->sp))) {
debug_stack_set_zero();
- __get_cpu_var(update_debug_stack) = 1;
+ this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 1);
}
}
static inline void nmi_nesting_postprocess(void)
{
- if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(update_debug_stack)))
+ if (unlikely(this_cpu_read(update_debug_stack))) {
debug_stack_reset();
+ this_cpu_write(update_debug_stack, 0);
+ }
}
#endif
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 685845cf16e..cf1178332bc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1211,12 +1211,6 @@ static long x32_arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child,
0, sizeof(struct user_i387_struct),
datap);
- /* normal 64bit interface to access TLS data.
- Works just like arch_prctl, except that the arguments
- are reversed. */
- case PTRACE_ARCH_PRCTL:
- return do_arch_prctl(child, data, addr);
-
default:
return compat_ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
}
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
index cf759609c9b..34cc627f18f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c
@@ -1107,7 +1107,10 @@ static const struct pv_cpu_ops xen_cpu_ops __initconst = {
.wbinvd = native_wbinvd,
.read_msr = native_read_msr_safe,
+ .rdmsr_regs = native_rdmsr_safe_regs,
.write_msr = xen_write_msr_safe,
+ .wrmsr_regs = native_wrmsr_safe_regs,
+
.read_tsc = native_read_tsc,
.read_pmc = native_read_pmc,