[PATCH 10/11] ARM: pm: convert some assembly to C

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Sep 19 12:32:15 EDT 2011


On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:48:28PM +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> > @@ -29,8 +48,7 @@ int cpu_suspend(unsigned long arg, int (*fn)(unsigned long))
> >  	 * resume (indicated by a zero return code), we need to switch
> >  	 * back to the correct page tables.
> >  	 */
> > -	ret = __cpu_suspend(virt_to_phys(suspend_pgd),
> > -			    PHYS_OFFSET - PAGE_OFFSET, arg, fn);
> > +	ret = __cpu_suspend(arg, fn);
> >  	if (ret == 0)
> >  		cpu_switch_mm(mm->pgd, mm);
> 
> It is still early testing, but without a local tlb flush here I am getting
> random segmentation faults in user space.
> My fear is that 1:1 global TLB entries cause issues if user space processes 
> happen to map those pages at addresses overlapping 1:1 mapping set-up for 
> resume and we do not flush the TLB.

Yes, having the global TLB entry potentially in userspace is a problem.
I don't think we can get around this any other way than by calling
local_flush_tlb_all() here.  I'll post an updated series shortly.



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