race between kmap shootdown and cache maintenance

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:13:03AM -0800, Gary King wrote:
> for highmem pages, flush_dcache_page must pin the kmap mapping in-place
> using kmap_high_get, to ensure that the cache maintenance does not race
> with another context calling kunmap_high on the same page and causing the
> PTE to be zapped.

You need to sign off on patches you send.

> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/flush.c |   18 +++++++++++++++---
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> index 6f3a4b7..69ee285 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ void flush_ptrace_access(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
>  
>  void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
>  {
> -	void *addr = page_address(page);
> +	void *addr = NULL;

You shouldn't need an initializer here - the address will always be
initialized, either by kmap_high_get() or page_address().

>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Writeback any data associated with the kernel mapping of this
> @@ -127,10 +127,17 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
>  	/*
>  	 * kmap_atomic() doesn't set the page virtual address, and
> -	 * kunmap_atomic() takes care of cache flushing already.
> +	 * kunmap_atomic() takes care of cache flushing already; however,
> +	 * the kmap must be pinned locally to ensure that no other context
> +	 * unmaps it during the cache maintenance
>  	 */
> -	if (addr)
> +	if (PageHighMem(page))
> +		addr = kmap_high_get(page);
> +	else
>  #endif
> +		addr = page_address(page);
> +
> +	if (addr)
>  		__cpuc_flush_dcache_area(addr, PAGE_SIZE);
>  
>  	/*
> @@ -141,6 +148,11 @@ void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
>  	if (mapping && cache_is_vipt_aliasing())
>  		flush_pfn_alias(page_to_pfn(page),
>  				page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
> +	if (PageHighMem(page) && addr)
> +		kunmap_high(page);
> +#endif

You don't need to hold on to the highmem kmap this long - the only thing
that it'd matter for is the __cpuc_flush_dcache_area() call.  You can
combine this conditional with the test for __cpuc_flush_dcache_area()
as well.