From: john.stultz@linaro.org (John Stultz)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:57:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292302659-1863-5-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1292302659-1863-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>
From: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
We can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling flush_cache_user_range
because the flush can fault. If we fault on a user address, the
page fault handler will try to take mmap_sem again. Since both places
acquire the read lock, most of the time it succeeds. However, if another
thread tries to acquire the write lock on the mmap_sem (e.g. mmap) in
between the call to flush_cache_user_range and the fault, the down_read
in do_page_fault will deadlock.
Also, since we really can't be holding the mmap_sem while calling
flush_cache_user_range AND vma is actually unused by the flush itself,
get rid of vma as an argument.
CC: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
index 3acd8fa..f533a6a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ extern void flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long user_addr
* Harvard caches are synchronised for the user space address range.
* This is used for the ARM private sys_cacheflush system call.
*/
-#define flush_cache_user_range(vma,start,end) \
+#define flush_cache_user_range(start,end) \
__cpuc_coherent_user_range((start) & PAGE_MASK, PAGE_ALIGN(end))
/*
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index 446aee9..7644a56 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -451,7 +451,9 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
if (end > vma->vm_end)
end = vma->vm_end;
- flush_cache_user_range(vma, start, end);
+ up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+ flush_cache_user_range(start, end);
+ return;
}
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
}
--
1.7.3.2.146.gca209
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 4:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-14 4:57 [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Trivial ARM related Android patches John Stultz
2010-12-14 4:57 ` [PATCH 1/4] avoid mis-detecting some V7 cores in the decompressor John Stultz
2010-12-14 4:57 ` [PATCH 2/4] Optionally flush entire dcache from v6_dma_flush_range John Stultz
2010-12-14 9:30 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 10:58 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14 4:57 ` [PATCH 3/4] process: Add display of memory around registers when displaying regs John Stultz
2010-12-14 9:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 4:57 ` John Stultz [this message]
2010-12-14 9:30 ` [PATCH 4/4] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 17:51 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14 19:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-12-14 21:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 13:27 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-04-04 13:37 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-04 13:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2011-08-26 7:32 ` Jiejing.Zhang
2011-09-05 11:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2010-12-14 18:18 ` Catalin Marinas
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