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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c index 10b9809ce82..0416ffb8e36 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c @@ -229,9 +229,14 @@ void global_flush_tlb(void) struct page *pg, *next; struct list_head l; - down_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem); + /* + * Write-protect the semaphore, to exclude two contexts + * doing a list_replace_init() call in parallel and to + * exclude new additions to the deferred_pages list: + */ + down_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem); list_replace_init(&deferred_pages, &l); - up_read(&init_mm.mmap_sem); + up_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem); flush_map(&l); |