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[PATCH] paravirt: remove read hazard from cow

We don't want to read PTEs directly like this after they have been modified,
as a lazy MMU implementation of direct page tables may not have written the
updated PTE back to memory yet.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Zachary Amsden 19 years ago
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      mm/memory.c

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mm/memory.c

@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 	 */
 	if (is_cow_mapping(vm_flags)) {
 		ptep_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pte);
-		pte = *src_pte;
+		pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
 	}
 
 	/*