quicklist: Set tlb->need_flush if pages are remaining in quicklist 0
This ensures that the quicklists are drained. Otherwise draining may only
occur when the processor reaches an idle state.
Fixes fatal leakage of pgd_t's on 2.6.22 and later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
index f490e43..799307e 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#define _ASM_GENERIC__TLB_H
#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/quicklist.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
@@ -85,6 +86,9 @@
static inline void
tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_QUICKLIST
+ tlb->need_flush += &__get_cpu_var(quicklist)[0].nr_pages != 0;
+#endif
tlb_flush_mmu(tlb, start, end);
/* keep the page table cache within bounds */