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[POWERPC] Make high hugepage areas preempt safe

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Checking source for other get_paca()->field preemption dangers found that
open_high_hpage_areas does a structure copy into its paca while preemption
is enabled: unsafe however gcc accomplishes it.  Just remove that copy:
it's done safely afterwards by on_each_cpu, as in open_low_hpage_areas.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Hugh Dickins 2006-10-31 18:40:39 +00:00 committed by Paul Mackerras
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arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
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@ -480,9 +480,6 @@ static int open_high_hpage_areas(struct mm_struct *mm, u16 newareas)
mm->context.high_htlb_areas |= newareas;
/* update the paca copy of the context struct */
get_paca()->context = mm->context;
/* the context change must make it to memory before the flush,
* so that further SLB misses do the right thing. */
mb();