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From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: compat: Alloc separate pages for vectors and sigpage
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 11:08:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36e96791-9892-d161-c72c-d4489fc95c25@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190402100657.tkvdkqtx2xjjixma@mbp>

On 02/04/2019 11:06, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 11:01:04AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> On 01/04/2019 15:27, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>>>> +static int aarch32_sigreturn_setup(struct mm_struct *mm)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	unsigned long addr;
>>>>  	void *ret;
>>>>  
>>>> -	if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
>>>> -		return -EINTR;
>>>> -	current->mm->context.vdso = (void *)addr;
>>>> +	addr = get_unmapped_area(NULL, 0, PAGE_SIZE, 0, 0);
>>>> +	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(addr)) {
>>>> +		ret = ERR_PTR(addr);
>>>> +		goto out;
>>>> +	}
>>>>  
>>>> -	/* Map vectors page at the high address. */
>>>>  	ret = _install_special_mapping(mm, addr, PAGE_SIZE,
>>>> -				       VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYEXEC,
>>>> -				       &spec);
>>>> +				       VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_MAYREAD |
>>>> +				       VM_MAYWRITE | VM_MAYEXEC,
>>>> +				       &aarch32_vdso_spec[1]);
>>>
>>> Any reason for setting VM_MAYWRITE here?
>>
>> VM_MAYWRITE is required to allow gdb to Copy-on-Write and set breakpoints.
> 
> Thanks. Please add a comment to the code so I don't ask again ;).
> 

No problem, my bad for not adding it in the first place ;).

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-02 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-01 11:20 [PATCH 0/4] arm64: compat: Add kuser helpers config option Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] arm64: compat: Alloc separate pages for vectors and sigpage Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 14:27   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-04-02 10:01     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-02 10:06       ` Catalin Marinas
2019-04-02 10:08         ` Vincenzo Frascino [this message]
2019-04-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: compat: Split kuser32 Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 14:30   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-04-02  9:47     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: compat: Refactor aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages() Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 14:43   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-04-02 10:06     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 11:20 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: compat: Add KUSER_HELPERS config option Vincenzo Frascino
2019-04-01 14:48   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-04-02 10:12     ` Vincenzo Frascino

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