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authorGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-10-05 10:52:27 -0600
committerGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>2011-10-05 10:52:27 -0600
commit9514a56753a8d379db36bed424588e1842f2bfcc (patch)
treed13cdfcd9473f521c3b108770dba57e81e557a30 /mm/vmalloc.c
parent4cd7f7a31178ff8a15ad2bc1258b9b2bf2cf51a4 (diff)
parent6add6967a4a57e2156b96e62f28bcbe1901d16c1 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-grant' of git://git.jdl.com/software/linux-3.0 into devicetree/next
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 7ef0903058ee..5016f19e1661 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2140,6 +2140,14 @@ struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
return NULL;
}
+ /*
+ * If the allocated address space is passed to a hypercall
+ * before being used then we cannot rely on a page fault to
+ * trigger an update of the page tables. So sync all the page
+ * tables here.
+ */
+ vmalloc_sync_all();
+
return area;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);