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authorMarcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>2016-12-13 11:40:57 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-12-18 09:42:11 +0100
commit297e765e390a2ac996000b5f7228cbd84d995174 (patch)
tree818530a3a6e8c7e1f0d993a6c6497498338ab68f /kernel/events
parente7aa8c2eb11ba69b1b69099c3c7bd6be3087b0ba (diff)
uprobes: Fix uprobes on MIPS, allow for a cache flush after ixol breakpoint creation
Commit: 72e6ae285a1d ('ARM: 8043/1: uprobes need icache flush after xol write' ... has introduced an arch-specific method to ensure all caches are flushed appropriately after an instruction is written to an XOL page. However, when the XOL area is created and the out-of-line breakpoint instruction is copied, caches are not flushed at all and stale data may be found in icache. Replace a simple copy_to_page() with arch_uprobe_copy_ixol() to allow the arch to ensure all caches are updated accordingly. This change fixes uprobes on MIPS InterAptiv (tested on Creator Ci40). Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Victor Kamensky <victor.kamensky@linaro.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481625657-22850-1-git-send-email-marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index f9ec9add2164..b5916b4969a5 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ static struct xol_area *__create_xol_area(unsigned long vaddr)
/* Reserve the 1st slot for get_trampoline_vaddr() */
set_bit(0, area->bitmap);
atomic_set(&area->slot_count, 1);
- copy_to_page(area->pages[0], 0, &insn, UPROBE_SWBP_INSN_SIZE);
+ arch_uprobe_copy_ixol(area->pages[0], 0, &insn, UPROBE_SWBP_INSN_SIZE);
if (!xol_add_vma(mm, area))
return area;