From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 22:58:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.2.0-15.16~11889^2~4 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=22c4bd9fa921c2b1b3f2420d7b9dabbe982f3059;p=mirror_ubuntu-eoan-kernel.git x86: Add a comment clarifying LDT context switching The code is correct, but only for a rather subtle reason. This confused me for quite a while when I read switch_mm, so clarify the code to avoid confusing other people, too. TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if this code was only correct by accident. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: "hillf.zj" Cc: Valdis Kletnieks Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Linus Torvalds Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0db86397f968996fb772c443c251415b0b430ddd.1414190806.git.luto@amacapital.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h index 4b75d591eb5e..52c18359f1dc 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h @@ -55,12 +55,14 @@ static inline void switch_mm(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next, /* * Load the LDT, if the LDT is different. * - * It's possible leave_mm(prev) has been called. If so, - * then prev->context.ldt could be out of sync with the - * LDT descriptor or the LDT register. This can only happen - * if prev->context.ldt is non-null, since we never free - * an LDT. But LDTs can't be shared across mms, so - * prev->context.ldt won't be equal to next->context.ldt. + * It's possible that prev->context.ldt doesn't match + * the LDT register. This can happen if leave_mm(prev) + * was called and then modify_ldt changed + * prev->context.ldt but suppressed an IPI to this CPU. + * In this case, prev->context.ldt != NULL, because we + * never free an LDT while the mm still exists. That + * means that next->context.ldt != prev->context.ldt, + * because mms never share an LDT. */ if (unlikely(prev->context.ldt != next->context.ldt)) load_LDT_nolock(&next->context);