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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2011-09-26 20:12:45 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2011-09-26 20:12:45 +0200
commit0d41da2e31e81f5c8aaabe17f769de4304b2d4c8 (patch)
tree540acefba9bf01d3880d7bacb767fbf9b1fe80b4 /mm/vmalloc.c
parenta0089bd617adea27ebc352e1e0871649ab1dbaa6 (diff)
parente8b364b88cc4001b21c28c1ecf1e1e3ffbe162e6 (diff)
downloadlinux-0d41da2e31e81f5c8aaabe17f769de4304b2d4c8.tar.bz2
Merge branch 'pm-fixes' into pm-domains
Merge commit e8b364b88cc4001b21c28c1ecf1e1e3ffbe162e6 (PM / Clocks: Do not acquire a mutex under a spinlock) fixing a regression in drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c. Conflicts: drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 7ef0903058ee..5016f19e1661 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2140,6 +2140,14 @@ struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
return NULL;
}
+ /*
+ * If the allocated address space is passed to a hypercall
+ * before being used then we cannot rely on a page fault to
+ * trigger an update of the page tables. So sync all the page
+ * tables here.
+ */
+ vmalloc_sync_all();
+
return area;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);