Commit d065bd810b
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.
Port these changes to ARM.
Without these changes, my ARM board encounters many hang and livelock
scenarios.
After applying this patch, OOM feature performance improves according to
my testing.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The definition of __exception_irq_entry for
CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER=y needs linux/ftrace.h, but this creates a
circular dependency with it's current home in asm/system.h. Create
asm/exception.h and update all current users.
v4: - rebase to rmk/for-next
v3: - remove redundant includes of linux/ftrace.h
v2: - document the usage restricitions of __exception*
Cc: Zoltan Devai <zdevai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (237 commits)
ARM: 7004/1: fix traps.h compile warnings
ARM: 6998/2: kernel: use proper memory barriers for bitops
ARM: 6997/1: ep93xx: increase NR_BANKS to 16 for support of 128MB RAM
ARM: Fix build errors caused by adding generic macros
ARM: CPU hotplug: ensure we migrate all IRQs off a downed CPU
ARM: CPU hotplug: pass in proper affinity mask on IRQ migration
ARM: GIC: avoid routing interrupts to offline CPUs
ARM: CPU hotplug: fix abuse of irqdesc->node
ARM: 6981/2: mmci: adjust calculation of f_min
ARM: 7000/1: LPAE: Use long long printk format for displaying the pud
ARM: 6999/1: head, zImage: Always Enter the kernel in ARM state
ARM: btc: avoid invalidating the branch target cache on kernel TLB maintanence
ARM: ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE is no more
ARM: mach-shark: move ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-sa1100: move ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-realview: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-pxa: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-ixp4xx: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-h720x: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
ARM: mach-davinci: move from ARM_DMA_ZONE_SIZE to mdesc->dma_zone_size
...
Currently using just long but this is not enough for the LPAE format
(64-bit entries).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Avoid enabling interrupts if the parent context had interrupts enabled
in the abort handler assembly code, and move this into the breakpoint/
page/alignment fault handlers instead.
This gets rid of some special-casing for the breakpoint fault handlers
from the low level abort handler path.
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The nmi parameter indicated if we could do wakeups from the current
context, if not, we would set some state and self-IPI and let the
resulting interrupt do the wakeup.
For the various event classes:
- hardware: nmi=0; PMI is in fact an NMI or we run irq_work_run from
the PMI-tail (ARM etc.)
- tracepoint: nmi=0; since tracepoint could be from NMI context.
- software: nmi=[0,1]; some, like the schedule thing cannot
perform wakeups, and hence need 0.
As one can see, there is very little nmi=1 usage, and the down-side of
not using it is that on some platforms some software events can have a
jiffy delay in wakeup (when arch_irq_work_raise isn't implemented).
The up-side however is that we can remove the nmi parameter and save a
bunch of conditionals in fast paths.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-agjev8eu666tvknpb3iaj0fg@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add pud_offset() et.al. between the pgd and pmd code in preparation of
using pgtable-nopud.h rather than 4level-fixup.h.
This incorporates a fix from Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> for
uaccess_with_memcpy.c.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
For the Kernel to support 2 level and 3 level page tables, physical
addresses (and also page table entries) need to be 32 or 64-bits depending
upon the configuration.
This patch uses the %08llx conversion specifier for physical addresses
and page table entries, ensuring that they are cast to (long long) so
that common code can be used regardless of the datatype widths.
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This switches the ordering of the Linux vs hardware page tables in
each page, thereby eliminating some of the arithmetic in the page
table walks. As we now place the Linux page table at the beginning
of the page, we can deal with the offset in the pgt by simply masking
it away, along with the other control bits.
This also makes the arithmetic all be positive, rather than a mixture.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
