x86: work around Fedora-11 x86-32 kernel failures on Intel Atom CPUs

[linux-2.6.git] / arch / x86 / mm / pageattr.c

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 7be47d1a97e463590fe0565e72f36499d95949b5..7233bd7e357bbccf2e6f091322606b083ca6f9d1 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -515,6 +515,17 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
         * primary protection behavior:
         */
        __set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, __pgprot(_KERNPG_TABLE)));
+
+       /*
+        * Intel Atom errata AAH41 workaround.
+        *
+        * The real fix should be in hw or in a microcode update, but
+        * we also probabilistically try to reduce the window of having
+        * a large TLB mixed with 4K TLBs while instruction fetches are
+        * going on.
+        */
+       __flush_tlb_all();
+
        base = NULL;
 
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