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    KVM: ppc: fix userspace mapping invalidation on context switch · fe4e771d
    Hollis Blanchard authored
    We used to defer invalidating userspace TLB entries until jumping out of the
    kernel. This was causing MMU weirdness most easily triggered by using a pipe in
    the guest, e.g. "dmesg | tail". I believe the problem was that after the guest
    kernel changed the PID (part of context switch), the old process's mappings
    were still present, and so copy_to_user() on the "return to new process" path
    ended up using stale mappings.
    
    Testing with large pages (64K) exposed the problem, probably because with 4K
    pages, pressure on the TLB faulted all process A's mappings out before the
    guest kernel could insert any for process B.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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