x86/mm: Do not flush last cacheline twice in clflush_cache_range()
authorRoss Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 11 May 2015 08:15:49 +0000 (10:15 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 May 2015 08:38:44 +0000 (10:38 +0200)
commit6c434d6176c0cb42847c33245189667d645db7bf
tree7d798f1ea9e8946c64d8558f8c4906e479ad368c
parent030bbdbf4c833bc69f502eae58498bc5572db736
x86/mm: Do not flush last cacheline twice in clflush_cache_range()

The current algorithm used in clflush_cache_range() can cause
the last cache line of the buffer to be flushed twice. Fix that
algorithm so that each cache line will only be flushed once.

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430259192-18802-1-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-5-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
[ Changed it to 'void *' to simplify the type conversions. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c