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[01/42] KVM: PPC: cache flush for kernel managed pages

Message ID 1367001037-10394-23-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Alexander Graf April 26, 2013, 6:29 p.m. UTC 
From: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@freescale.com>

Kernel can only access pages which maps as memory.
So flush only the valid kernel pages.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <bharat.bhushan@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
index f589307..4794de6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_ppc.h
@@ -282,8 +282,15 @@  void kvmppc_init_lpid(unsigned long nr_lpids);
 
 static inline void kvmppc_mmu_flush_icache(pfn_t pfn)
 {
-	/* Clear i-cache for new pages */
 	struct page *page;
+	/*
+	 * We can only access pages that the kernel maps
+	 * as memory. Bail out for unmapped ones.
+	 */
+	if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
+		return;
+
+	/* Clear i-cache for new pages */
 	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
 	if (!test_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags)) {
 		flush_dcache_icache_page(page);