Commit d6f0f39b authored by Suresh Siddha's avatar Suresh Siddha Committed by Ingo Molnar

x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR

Impact: fix rare x2apic hang

On x86, x2apic mode accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing
semantics. If the IPI receivner refers(in lock-free fashion) to some
memory setup by the sender, the need for smp_mb() before sending the
IPI becomes critical in x2apic mode.

Add the smp_mb() in native_flush_tlb_others() before sending the IPI.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 7db282fa
......@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const cpumask_t *cpumaskp, struct mm_struct *mm,
flush_mm = mm;
flush_va = va;
cpus_or(flush_cpumask, cpumask, flush_cpumask);
/*
* Make the above memory operations globally visible before
* sending the IPI.
*/
smp_mb();
/*
* We have to send the IPI only to
* CPUs affected.
......
......@@ -182,6 +182,11 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const cpumask_t *cpumaskp, struct mm_struct *mm,
f->flush_va = va;
cpus_or(f->flush_cpumask, cpumask, f->flush_cpumask);
/*
* Make the above memory operations globally visible before
* sending the IPI.
*/
smp_mb();
/*
* We have to send the IPI only to
* CPUs affected.
......
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