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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 48 |
1 files changed, 46 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h index 166af2a8e865..23e0625a6183 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -20,6 +20,50 @@ static inline void paravirt_activate_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, #endif /* !CONFIG_PARAVIRT */ /* + * ldt_structs can be allocated, used, and freed, but they are never + * modified while live. + */ +struct ldt_struct { + /* + * Xen requires page-aligned LDTs with special permissions. This is + * needed to prevent us from installing evil descriptors such as + * call gates. On native, we could merge the ldt_struct and LDT + * allocations, but it's not worth trying to optimize. + */ + struct desc_struct *entries; + int size; +}; + +static inline void load_mm_ldt(struct mm_struct *mm) +{ + struct ldt_struct *ldt; + + /* lockless_dereference synchronizes with smp_store_release */ + ldt = lockless_dereference(mm->context.ldt); + + /* + * Any change to mm->context.ldt is followed by an IPI to all + * CPUs with the mm active. The LDT will not be freed until + * after the IPI is handled by all such CPUs. This means that, + * if the ldt_struct changes before we return, the values we see + * will be safe, and the new values will be loaded before we run + * any user code. + * + * NB: don't try to convert this to use RCU without extreme care. + * We would still need IRQs off, because we don't want to change + * the local LDT after an IPI loaded a newer value than the one + * that we can see. + */ + + if (unlikely(ldt)) + set_ldt(ldt->entries, ldt->size); + else + clear_LDT(); + + DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(preemptible()); +} + +/* * Used for LDT copy/destruction. */ int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm); @@ -55,7 +99,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, /* Load the LDT, if the LDT is different: */ if (unlikely(prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt)) - load_LDT_nolock(&next->context); + load_mm_ldt(next); } #ifdef CONFIG_SMP else { @@ -77,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, */ load_cr3(next->pgd); trace_tlb_flush(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, TLB_FLUSH_ALL); - load_LDT_nolock(&next->context); + load_mm_ldt(next); } } #endif |