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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h index c7797307fc2b..79a4ca6a9606 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlb.h @@ -15,4 +15,18 @@ #include <asm-generic/tlb.h> +/* + * While x86 architecture in general requires an IPI to perform TLB + * shootdown, enablement code for several hypervisors overrides + * .flush_tlb_others hook in pv_mmu_ops and implements it by issuing + * a hypercall. To keep software pagetable walkers safe in this case we + * switch to RCU based table free (HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE). See the comment + * below 'ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE' in include/asm-generic/tlb.h + * for more details. + */ +static inline void __tlb_remove_table(void *table) +{ + free_page_and_swap_cache(table); +} + #endif /* _ASM_X86_TLB_H */ |