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Will Deacon 3a4b5dca53 ARM: 6355/1: hw-breakpoint: add mechanism for hooking into prefetch aborts
On ARM processors with hardware breakpoint and watchpoint support,
triggering these events results in a debug exception. These manifest
as prefetch and data aborts respectively.

arch/arm/mm/fault.c already provides hook_fault_code for hooking
into data aborts dependent on the DFSR. This patch adds a new function,
hook_ifault_code for hooking into prefetch aborts in the same manner.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: S. Karthikeyan <informkarthik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-09-08 10:04:59 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov b8ab5397bc ARM: 6268/1: ARMv6K and ARMv7 use fault statuses 3 and 6 as Access Flag fault
Statuses 3 (0b00011) and 6 (0x00110) of DFSR are Access Flags faults on
ARMv6K and ARMv7. Let's patch fsr_info[] at runtime if we are on ARMv7
or later.

Unfortunately, we don't have runtime check for 'K' extension, so we
can't check for it.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 10:48:41 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 993bf4ec8c ARM: 6256/1: Check arch version and modify fsr_info[] depends on it at runtime
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 10:48:41 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 33a9c41bf5 ARM: 6255/1: Workaround infinity loop in handling of translation faults
On ARM one Linux PGD entry contains two hardware entries (see page
tables layout in pgtable.h). We normally guarantee that we always
fill both L1 entries. But create_mapping() doesn't follow the rule.
It can create inidividual L1 entries, so here we have to call
pmd_none() check in do_translation_fault() for the entry really
corresponded to address, not for the first of pair.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 10:48:41 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 6338a6aa7c ARM: 6269/1: Add 'code' parameter for hook_fault_code()
Add one more parameter to hook_fault_code() to be able to set 'code'
field of struct fsr_info.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 10:48:34 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 3dc91aff9c ARM: 6252/1: Use SIGBUS for unaligned access instead of SIGILL
POSIX specify to use signal SIGBUS with code BUS_ADRALN for invalid
address alignment.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-07-27 10:43:49 +01:00
Anfei 5e27fb78df ARM: 6166/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on pre-ARMv6
Instruction faults on pre-ARMv6 CPUs are interpreted as
a 'translation fault', but do_translation_fault doesn't
handle well if user mode trying to run instruction above
TASK_SIZE, and result in the infinite retry of that
instruction.

CC: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anfei Zhou <anfei.zhou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-06-08 19:39:57 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 8c0b742ca7 ARM: 6134/1: Handle instruction cache maintenance fault properly
Between "clean D line..." and "invalidate I line" operations in
v7_coherent_user_range(), the memory page may get swapped out.
And the fault on "invalidate I line" could not be properly handled
causing the oops.

In ARMv6 "external abort on linefetch" replaced by "instruction cache
maintenance fault". Let's handle it as translation fault. It fixes the
issue.

I'm not sure if it's reasonable to check arch version in run-time.
Let's do it in compile time for now.

Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Siarhei Siamashka <siarhei.siamashka@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-05-15 15:03:52 +01:00
Jamie Iles 7ada189f5c ARM: 5900/2: arm: enable support for software perf events
The perf events subsystem allows counting of both hardware and
software events. This patch implements the bare minimum for software
performance events.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@picochip.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-12 17:25:53 +00:00
Imre Deak 1d2127123d ARM: 5742/1: ARM: add debug check for invalid kernel page faults
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: Imre Deak <imre.deak@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-10-05 17:55:55 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov d25ef8b86e ARM: 5728/1: Proper prefetch abort handling on ARMv6 and ARMv7
Currently, on ARMv6 and ARMv7, if an application tries to execute
code (or garbage) on non-executable page it hangs. It caused by
incorrect prefetch abort handling. Now every prefetch abort
processes as a translation fault.

To fix this we have to analyze instruction fault status register
to figure out reason why we've got the abort and process it
accordingly.

To make IFSR different from DFSR we set bit 31 which is reserved in
both IFSR and DFSR.

This patch also tries to protect from future hangs on unexpected
exceptions. An application will be killed if unexpected exception
type was received.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-10-02 22:34:32 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 4fb2847437 ARM: 5727/1: Pass IFSR register to do_PrefetchAbort()
Instruction fault status register, IFSR, was introduced on ARMv6 to
provide status information about the last insturction fault. It
needed for proper prefetch abort handling.

Now we have three prefetch abort model:

  * legacy - for CPUs before ARMv6. They doesn't provide neither
    IFSR nor IFAR. We simulate IFSR with section translation fault
    status for them to generalize code;
  * ARMv6 - provides IFSR, but not IFAR;
  * ARMv7 - provides both IFSR and IFAR.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-10-02 22:34:32 +01:00
Russell King df297bf6c7 ARM: Add support for checking access permissions on prefetch aborts
ARMv6 introduces non-executable mappings, which can cause prefetch aborts
when an attempt is made to execute from such a mapping.  Currently, this
causes us to loop in the page fault handler since we don't correctly
check for proper permissions.

Fix this by checking that VMAs have VM_EXEC set for prefetch aborts.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-20 16:53:40 +01:00
Russell King d374bf14a5 ARM: Separate out access error checking
Since we get notified separately about prefetch aborts, which may be
permission faults, we need to check for appropriate access permissions
when handling a fault.  This patch prepares us for doing this by
separating out the access error checking.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-20 16:53:40 +01:00
Russell King bf4569922b ARM: Ensure correct might_sleep() check in pagefault path
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-20 12:55:50 +01:00
Russell King b42c6344b0 ARM: Update page fault handling for new OOM techniques
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-20 12:55:49 +01:00
Russell King c88d6aa71b ARM: Provide definitions and helpers for decoding the FSR register
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-20 12:55:49 +01:00
Russell King ddd559b13f Merge branch 'devel-stable' into devel
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mm/fault.c
2009-09-12 12:02:26 +01:00
Russell King 65cec8e3db ARM: implement highpte
Add the ARM implementation of highpte, which allows PTE tables to be
placed in highmem.  Unfortunately, we do not offer highpte support
when support for L2 cache is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-08-17 20:02:06 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 412bb0a622 Include linux/sched.h in arch/arm/mm/fault.c
When building with !MMU, task_struct is not defined. Just include the
relevant file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-24 12:37:09 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 09529f7a1a nommu: Fix the fault processing for the MMU-less case
The patch adds the necessary ifdefs around functions that only make
sense when the MMU is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-24 12:34:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds d06063cc22 Move FAULT_FLAG_xyz into handle_mm_fault() callers
This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz
flags to handle_mm_fault().  All callers have been (mechanically)
converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room
for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY
when that support is added.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-21 13:08:22 -07:00
Russell King c613bbba6f Merge branch 'mxc-pu-imxfb' of git://pasiphae.extern.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 into devel 2008-12-17 20:04:45 +00:00
Russell King 67306da610 [ARM] Ensure linux/hardirqs.h is included where required
... for the removal of it from asm-generic/local.h

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-15 10:34:48 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 252d4c276d [ARM] remove bogus #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM in show_pte()
The restriction on !CONFIG_HIGHMEM is unneeded since page tables are
currently never allocated with highmem pages, and actually disable PTE
dump whenever highmem is configured.  Let's have a dynamic test to better
describe the current limitation instead.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-11-28 15:36:47 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre da46c79a54 [ARM] 5272/1: remove conditional compilation in show_pte()
The PTRS_PER_PMD != 1 condition can be evaluated with C code and
optimized at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-30 16:41:04 +01:00
Russell King 33fa9b1328 [ARM] Convert asm/uaccess.h to linux/uaccess.h
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-06 11:35:55 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre 785d3cd286 ARM kprobes: prevent some functions involved with kprobes from being probed
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-01-26 15:25:17 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre 25ce1dd71b ARM kprobes: add the kprobes hook to the page fault handler
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
2008-01-26 15:25:16 +00:00
Serge E. Hallyn b460cbc581 pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()
is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().

A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.

A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.

Changelog:

	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().

	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:

	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:37 -07:00
Will Schmidt dcca2bde4f During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group
We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
condition.

Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad
state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the
application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious
that something has gone wrong.

This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
than just the one thread.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:52 -07:00
Nick Piggin 5c72fc5cad arm: fix up handle_mm_fault changes
Update arm to use bitwise types for its VM_FAULT_ constants.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-20 08:50:20 -07:00
Nick Piggin 83c54070ee mm: fault feedback #2
This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
however that would be for another patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 1eeb66a1bb move die notifier handling to common code
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)

arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
Russell King 0f0a00beb8 [ARM] Remove needless linux/ptrace.h includes
Lots of places in arch/arm were needlessly including linux/ptrace.h,
resumably because we used to pass a struct pt_regs to interrupt
handlers.  Now that we don't, all these ptrace.h includes are
redundant.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-04-21 20:34:47 +01:00
Russell King 7ab3f8d595 [ARM] Add ability to dump exception stacks to kernel backtraces
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-04-21 20:34:34 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 6edaf68a87 [PATCH] mm: arch do_page_fault() vs in_atomic()
In light of the recent pagefault and filemap_copy_from_user work I've gone
through all the arch pagefault handlers to make sure the inc_preempt_count()
'feature' works as expected.

Several sections of code (including the new filemap_copy_from_user) rely on
the fact that faults do not take locks under increased preempt count.

arch/x86_64 - good
arch/powerpc - good
arch/cris - fixed
arch/i386 - good
arch/parisc - fixed
arch/sh - good
arch/sparc - good
arch/s390 - good
arch/m68k - fixed
arch/ppc - good
arch/alpha - fixed
arch/mips - good
arch/sparc64 - good
arch/ia64 - good
arch/arm - fixed
arch/um - good
arch/avr32 - good
arch/h8300 - NA
arch/m32r - good
arch/v850 - good
arch/frv - fixed
arch/m68knommu - NA
arch/arm26 - fixed
arch/sh64 - fixed
arch/xtensa - good

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu f400e198b2 [PATCH] pidspace: is_init()
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280).  It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and
replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init().

Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other
patches for now.

Eric's original description:

	There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init
	because we give it special properties.  Most  significantly init
	must not die.  This results in code all over the kernel test
	->pid == 1.

	Introduce is_init to capture this case.

	With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are
	looking for only the first process on the system, not some other
	process that has pid == 1.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
Jason Baron df67b3daea [PATCH] make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ
Make PROT_WRITE imply PROT_READ for a number of architectures which don't
support write only in hardware.

While looking at this, I noticed that some architectures which do not
support write only mappings already take the exact same approach.  For
example, in arch/alpha/mm/fault.c:

"
        if (cause < 0) {
                if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC))
                        goto bad_area;
        } else if (!cause) {
                /* Allow reads even for write-only mappings */
                if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE)))
                        goto bad_area;
        } else {
                if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
                        goto bad_area;
        }
"

Thus, this patch brings other architectures which do not support write only
mappings in-line and consistent with the rest.  I've verified the patch on
ia64, x86_64 and x86.

Additional discussion:

Several architectures, including x86, can not support write-only mappings.
The pte for x86 reserves a single bit for protection and its two states are
read only or read/write.  Thus, write only is not supported in h/w.

Currently, if i 'mmap' a page write-only, the first read attempt on that page
creates a page fault and will SEGV.  That check is enforced in
arch/blah/mm/fault.c.  However, if i first write that page it will fault in
and the pte will be set to read/write.  Thus, any subsequent reads to the page
will succeed.  It is this inconsistency in behavior that this patch is
attempting to address.  Furthermore, if the page is swapped out, and then
brought back the first read will also cause a SEGV.  Thus, any arbitrary read
on a page can potentially result in a SEGV.

According to the SuSv3 spec, "if the application requests only PROT_WRITE, the
implementation may also allow read access." Also as mentioned, some
archtectures, such as alpha, shown above already take the approach that i am
suggesting.

The counter-argument to this raised by Arjan, is that the kernel is enforcing
the write only mapping the best it can given the h/w limitations.  This is
true, however Alan Cox, and myself would argue that the inconsitency in
behavior, that is applications can sometimes work/sometimes fails is highly
undesireable.  If you read through the thread, i think people, came to an
agreement on the last patch i posted, as nobody has objected to it...

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:05 -07:00
Russell King e5beac371a [ARM] do_bad_area() always takes current and current->active_mm
Since do_bad_area() always takes the currently active task and
(supposed to) take the currently active MM, there's no point passing
them to this function.  Instead, obtain references to them inside
do_bad_area().

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-27 16:13:48 +01:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Russell King 840ff6a4f6 [ARM] Prevent deadlock in page fault handler
As per x86, we may deadlock while trying to get the mmap semaphore.
Implement the same fix, which allows (eg) recursive faults to cause
an oops instead of deadlocking.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-20 17:52:13 +01:00
Russell King ff2afb9df6 [PATCH] ARM: Fix ARM fault handler for get_user_pages() fixes.
The ARM fault handler is optimised to make the fast path, err, fast.
The renumbering of the VM_FAULT_* codes broke this because numbers
were used instead of the definitions.  Fix this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-04 14:17:33 +01:00
Russell King cfb0810eab [PATCH] ARM: Don't try to send a signal to pid0
If we receive an unrecognised abort during boot, don't try to
send a signal to pid0, but instead report the current state.
This leads to less confusing debug reports.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-30 11:06:49 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org 2d137c24e9 [PATCH] arm: fix SIGBUS handling
)


From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

ARM wasn't raising a SIGBUS with a siginfo structure.  Fix
__do_user_fault() to allow us to use it for SIGBUS conditions, and arrange
for the sigbus path to use this.

We need to prevent the siginfo code being called if we do not have a user
space context to call it, so consolidate the "user_mode()" tests.

Thanks to Ian Campbell who spotted this oversight.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:23:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00