Page tables should always be updated using the proper accessor
methods. Not doing so bypasses the paravirt infrastructure.
In this case the failure to do so was exposed under Xen by
b40827fa7268 "x86-32, mm: Add an initial page table for core
bootstrapping".
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 ++++-
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index ada823a..0b4c514 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -619,7 +619,10 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm,
*/
static inline void clone_pgd_range(pgd_t *dst, pgd_t *src, int count)
{
- memcpy(dst, src, count * sizeof(pgd_t));
+ int i;
+
+ for (i=0; i<count; i++)
+ set_pgd(&dst[i], src[i]);
}
--
1.5.6.5
--
