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Commit: 551ed332da2f52daf5d01fc76d2a894aba79d316
Parent: f5903ede0015db5b53458092b6ae2af074fa49d4
Author: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 6 06:43:26 2008 +1100
Committer: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Feb 6 16:30:01 2008 +1100
[POWERPC] update_mmu_cache: Don't cache-flush non-readable pages
Currently, update_mmu_cache will crash if given a no-access PTE.
There's no need to synchronize dcache/icache unless it's an exec
mapping -- however, due to the existence of older glibc versions that
execute out of a read-but-no-exec page, readability is tested instead.
This assumes no exec-only mappings; if such mappings become supported,
they will need to go through the kmap_atomic() version of
dcache/icache synchronization.
This fixes a bug reported by some users where the kernel would crash
while dumping core on a threaded program.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
index e812244..c7d7bd4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
@@ -483,7 +483,12 @@ void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned
long address,
*/
_tlbie(address, 0 /* 8xx doesn't care about PID */);
#endif
- if (!PageReserved(page)
+ /* The _PAGE_USER test should really be _PAGE_EXEC, but
+ * older glibc versions execute some code from no-exec
+ * pages, which for now we are supporting. If exec-only
+ * pages are ever implemented, this will have to change.
+ */
+ if (!PageReserved(page) && (pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_USER)
&& !test_bit(PG_arch_1, &page->flags)) {
if (vma->vm_mm == current->active_mm) {
__flush_dcache_icache((void *) address);
-
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