Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Required to queue a dependent fix.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 11843e37d9cf..0d72ec75da63 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -23,9 +23,21 @@
 #define flush_cache_range(vma, start, end)	do { } while (0)
 #define flush_cache_page(vma, vmaddr, pfn)	do { } while (0)
 #define flush_icache_page(vma, page)		do { } while (0)
-#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end)		do { } while (0)
 #define flush_cache_vunmap(start, end)		do { } while (0)
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
+/*
+ * Book3s has no ptesync after setting a pte, so without this ptesync it's
+ * possible for a kernel virtual mapping access to return a spurious fault
+ * if it's accessed right after the pte is set. The page fault handler does
+ * not expect this type of fault. flush_cache_vmap is not exactly the right
+ * place to put this, but it seems to work well enough.
+ */
+#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end)		do { asm volatile("ptesync" ::: "memory"); } while (0)
+#else
+#define flush_cache_vmap(start, end)		do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
 #define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1
 extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page);
 #define flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping)		do { } while (0)