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A radix guest can execute tlbie instructions to invalidate TLB entries. After a tlbie or a group of tlbies, it must then do the architected sequence eieio; tlbsync; ptesync to ensure that the TLB invalidation has been processed by all CPUs in the system before it can rely on no CPU using any translation that it just invalidated. In fact it is the ptesync which does the actual synchronization in this sequence, and hardware has a requirement that the ptesync must be executed on the same CPU thread as the tlbies which it is expected to order. Thus, if a vCPU gets moved from one physical CPU to another after it has done some tlbies but before it can get to do the ptesync, the ptesync will not have the desired effect when it is executed on the second physical CPU. To fix this, we do a ptesync in the exit path for radix guests. If there are any pending tlbies, this will wait for them to complete. If there aren't, then ptesync will just do the same as sync. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.