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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 13:51:04 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-09-20 15:52:38 +1000
commit1cce058b29e7eb8a71a72d8bb87eb7b4e0401c22 (patch)
tree493477b7a19606c66de2f003bca83672f2164cad /mm/vmalloc.c
parentc26afe9e8591f306d79aab8071f1d34e4f60b700 (diff)
parent9d037a777695993ec7437e5f451647dea7919d4c (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into next
(Merge in order to get the PCIe mps/mrss code fixes)
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);