1. 14 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ARM: ensure initial page tables are setup for SMP systems · 4b46d641
      Russell King 提交于
      Mapping the same memory using two different attributes (memory
      type, shareability, cacheability) is unpredictable.  During boot,
      we encounter a situation when we're updating the kernel's page
      tables which can lead to dirty cache lines existing in the cache
      which are subsequently missed.  This causes stack corruption,
      and therefore a crash.
      
      Therefore, ensure that the shared and cacheability settings
      matches the configuration that will be used later; this together
      with the restriction in early_cachepolicy() ensures that we won't
      create a mismatch during boot.
      Acked-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      4b46d641
  10. 30 10月, 2009 3 次提交
  11. 26 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ARM: force dcache flush if dcache_dirty bit set · 787b2faa
      Nitin Gupta 提交于
      On ARM, update_mmu_cache() does dcache flush for a page only if
      it has a kernel mapping (page_mapping(page) != NULL). The correct
      behavior would be to force the flush based on dcache_dirty bit only.
      
      One of the cases where present logic would be a problem is when
      a RAM based block device[1] is used as a swap disk. In this case,
      we would have in-memory data corruption as shown in steps below:
      
      do_swap_page()
      {
          - Allocate a new page (if not already in swap cache)
          - Issue read from swap disk
              - Block driver issues flush_dcache_page()
              - flush_dcache_page() simply sets PG_dcache_dirty bit and does not
                actually issue a flush since this page has no user space mapping yet.
          - Now, if swap disk is almost full, this newly read page is removed
            from swap cache and corrsponding swap slot is freed.
          - Map this page anonymously in user space.
          - update_mmu_cache()
              - Since this page does not have kernel mapping (its not in page/swap
                cache and is mapped anonymously), it does not issue dcache flush
                even if dcache_dirty bit is set by flush_dcache_page() above.
      
          <user now gets stale data since dcache was never flushed>
      }
      
      Same problem exists on mips too.
      
      [1] example:
       - brd (RAM based block device)
       - ramzswap (RAM based compressed swap device)
      Signed-off-by: NNitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      787b2faa
  14. 11 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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  16. 06 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ARM: 5742/1: ARM: add debug check for invalid kernel page faults · 1d212712
      Imre Deak 提交于
      According to the following in arch/arm/mm/fault.c page faults from
      kernel mode are invalid if mmap_sem is already held and there is
      no exception handler defined for the faulting instruction:
      
      /*
       * As per x86, we may deadlock here.  However, since the kernel only
       * validly references user space from well defined areas of the code,
       * we can bug out early if this is from code which shouldn't.
       */
      if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
      	if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->ARM_pc))
      		goto no_context;
      
      Since mmap_sem can be held at arbitrary times by another thread this
      also means that any page faults from kernel mode are invalid if no
      exception handler is defined for them, regardless whether mmap_sem is
      held at the time of fault.
      
      To easier detect code that can trigger the above error, add a check
      also for the case where mmap_sem is acquired. As this has an overhead
      make it a VM debug check.
      Signed-off-by: NImre Deak <imre.deak@nokia.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      1d212712
  17. 03 10月, 2009 2 次提交