tree c9cd47cfc5f7474fdf60735548734e647a4f7a9d
parent 7d69fa6266770eeb6317eddd46b64456e8a515bf
author David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> 1122355380 -0700
committer Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 1123884321 -0700

[IA64] Fix race in mm-context wrap-around logic.

The patch below should fix a race which could cause stale TLB entries.
Specifically, when 2 CPUs ended up racing for entrance to
wrap_mmu_context().  The losing CPU would find that by the time it
acquired ctx.lock, mm->context already had a valid value, but then it
failed to (re-)check the delayed TLB flushing logic and hence could
end up using a context number when there were still stale entries in
its TLB.  The fix is to check for delayed TLB flushes only after
mm->context is valid (non-zero).  The patch also makes GCC v4.x
happier by defining a non-volatile variant of mm_context_t called
nv_mm_context_t.

Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>