Dirk Behme reported instability on ARM11 SMP (VIPT non-aliasing cache)
caused by the dynamic linker changing protection on text pages to write
GOT entries. The problem is due to an interaction between the write
faulting code providing new anonymous pages which are incoherent with
the I-cache due to write buffering, and the I-cache not having been
invalidated.
a4db94d plugs the hole with the data cache coherency. This patch
provides the other half of the fix by flushing the I-cache in
flush_cache_range() for VM_EXEC VMAs (which is what we have when the
region is being made executable again.) This ensures that the I-cache
will be up to date with the newly COW'd pages.
Note: if users are writing instructions, then they still need to use
the ARM sys_cacheflush API to ensure that the caches are correctly
synchronized.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
flush_cache_mm() is called in two cases:
1. when a process exits, just before the page tables are torn down.
We can allow the stale lines to evict themselves over time without
causing any harm.
2. when a process forks, and we've allocated a new ASID.
The instruction cache issues are dealt with as pages are brought
into the new process address space. Flushing the I-cache here is
therefore unnecessary.
However, we must keep the VIPT aliasing D-cache flush to ensure that
any dirty cache lines are not written back after the pages have been
reallocated for some other use - which would result in corruption.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The I and D caches for copy-on-write pages on processors with
write-allocate caches become incoherent causing problems on application
relying on CoW for text pages (dynamic linker relocating symbols in a
text page). This patch flushes the D-cache for such pages.
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Both call sites for __flush_dcache_page() end up calling
__flush_icache_all() themselves, so having __flush_dcache_page() do
this as well is wasteful. Remove the duplicated icache flushing.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If running in non-secure mode accessing
some registers of l2x0 will fault. So
check if l2x0 is already enabled, if so
do not access those secure registers.
Signed-off-by: srinidhi kasagar <srinidhi.kasagar@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
removed old macro definition for io access, using
the generic macros defined in asm/io.h
Signed-off-by: Leo Hao Chen <leochen@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The zero page is read-only, and has its cache state cleared during
boot. No further maintanence for this page is required.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
page_address() is a function call rather than a macro, and so:
if (page_address(page))
do_something(page_address(page));
results in two calls to this function. This is unnecessary; remove
the duplication.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We had two copies of the wrapper code for VIVT cache flushing - one in
asm/cacheflush.h and one in arch/arm/mm/flush.c. Reduce this down to
one common copy.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: gcm - fix another complete call in complete fuction
crypto: padlock-aes - Use the correct mask when checking whether copying is required
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] Fix sparse warning
[CIFS] Duplicate data on appending to some Samba servers
[CIFS] fix oops in cifs_lookup during net boot
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
at24: Use timeout also for read
i2c: Fix userspace_device list corruption
MAINTAINERS: Add missing i2c files
i2c/tsl2550: Fix lux value in extended mode
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] Update mach-types
ARM: 5793/1: ARM: Check put_user fail in do_signal when enable OABI_COMPAT
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer information for AMBA primecell drivers
[ARM] pxa/spitz: fix compile regression on spitz
ARM: PNX4008: i2c-pnx: use the same dev_id for request_irq and free_irq
[ARM] pxa/cpufreq: fix index assignments for end marker
ARM: PNX4008: fix watchdog device driver name
[ARM] kmap: fix build errors with DEBUG_HIGHMEM enabled
Code was added to mm/higmem.c that depends on several
kmap types that powerpc does not support. We add dummy
invalid definitions for KM_NMI, KM_NM_PTE, and KM_IRQ_PTE.
According to list discussion, this fix should not be needed
anymore starting with 2.6.33. The code is commented to this
effect so hopefully we will remember to remove this.
Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sunsu: Use sunserial_console_termios() in sunsu_console_setup().
sunsu: Pass true 'ignore_line' to console match when RSC or LOM console.
serial: suncore: Fix RSC/LOM handling in sunserial_console_termios().
serial: suncore: Add 'ignore_line' argument to sunserial_console_match().
sunsu: Fix detection of SU ports which are RSC console or control.
sunsab: Do not set sunsab_reg.cons right before registering minors.
sparc64: Fix definition of VMEMMAP_SIZE.
Russell King
Catalin Marinas
Alessandro Rubini
Srinidhi Kasagar
Leo Chen
Linus Torvalds
Becky Bruce