[PATCH] CHROMIUM: iommu: rockchip: Make sure that page table state is coherent

Tomasz Figa tfiga at chromium.org
Mon Feb 9 03:22:12 PST 2015


On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org> wrote:
> Even though the code uses the dt_lock spin lock to serialize mapping
> operation from different threads, it does not protect from IOMMU
> accesses that might be already taking place and thus altering state
> of the IOTLB. This means that current mapping code which first zaps
> the page table and only then updates it with new mapping which is
> prone to mentioned race.

Oops, forgot to remove the "CHROMIUM" tag. Is that something that
could be fixed when applying (if the patch is otherwise okay) or
should I resend?

Best regards,
Tomasz



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