Re: [PATCH] Use global TLB flushes in MTRR code

["Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>]

and old-stable (eg 2.6.22)?

On 2/7/08, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> [probably stable material too]
>
> Use global TLB flushes in MTRR code
>
> Obviously kernel mappings should be flushed here too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
> +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c
> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ static void prepare_set(void) __acquires
>  	}
>
>  	/* Flush all TLBs via a mov %cr3, %reg; mov %reg, %cr3 */
> -	__flush_tlb();
> +	__flush_tlb_all();
>
>  	/*  Save MTRR state */
>  	rdmsr(MTRRdefType_MSR, deftype_lo, deftype_hi);
> @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ static void prepare_set(void) __acquires
>  static void post_set(void) __releases(set_atomicity_lock)
>  {
>  	/*  Flush TLBs (no need to flush caches - they are disabled)  */
> -	__flush_tlb();
> +	__flush_tlb_all();
>
>  	/* Intel (P6) standard MTRRs */
>  	mtrr_wrmsr(MTRRdefType_MSR, deftype_lo, deftype_hi);
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-- 
Thanks,
Oliver