KVM: PPC: Use READ_ONCE when dereferencing pte_t pointer
pte can get updated from other CPUs as part of multiple activities
like THP split, huge page collapse, unmap. We need to make sure we
don't reload the pte value again and again for different checks.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h
index 14619a5..23b724c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h
@@ -290,7 +290,10 @@
pte_t old_pte, new_pte = __pte(0);
while (1) {
- old_pte = *ptep;
+ /*
+ * Make sure we don't reload from ptep
+ */
+ old_pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
/*
* wait until _PAGE_BUSY is clear then set it atomically
*/