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KVM: ppc: fix userspace mapping invalidation on context switch

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We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
ended up using stale mappings.

Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
guest kernel could insert any for process B.

Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Hollis Blanchard
2008-11-10 14:57:36 -06:00
committed by Avi Kivity
parent df9b856c45
commit fe4e771d5c
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_44x.h
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@@ -44,4 +44,6 @@ static inline struct kvmppc_vcpu_44x *to_44x(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
return container_of(vcpu, struct kvmppc_vcpu_44x, vcpu);
}
void kvmppc_set_pid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 new_pid);
#endif /* __ASM_44X_H__ */