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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/alignment.c | 42 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c index be7c638b648b..1df38e833570 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c @@ -95,6 +95,33 @@ static const char *usermode_action[] = { "signal+warn" }; +/* Return true if and only if the ARMv6 unaligned access model is in use. */ +static bool cpu_is_v6_unaligned(void) +{ + return cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6 && (cr_alignment & CR_U); +} + +static int safe_usermode(int new_usermode, bool warn) +{ + /* + * ARMv6 and later CPUs can perform unaligned accesses for + * most single load and store instructions up to word size. + * LDM, STM, LDRD and STRD still need to be handled. + * + * Ignoring the alignment fault is not an option on these + * CPUs since we spin re-faulting the instruction without + * making any progress. + */ + if (cpu_is_v6_unaligned() && !(new_usermode & (UM_FIXUP | UM_SIGNAL))) { + new_usermode |= UM_FIXUP; + + if (warn) + printk(KERN_WARNING "alignment: ignoring faults is unsafe on this CPU. Defaulting to fixup mode.\n"); + } + + return new_usermode; +} + static int alignment_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { seq_printf(m, "User:\t\t%lu\n", ai_user); @@ -125,7 +152,7 @@ static ssize_t alignment_proc_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer if (get_user(mode, buffer)) return -EFAULT; if (mode >= '0' && mode <= '5') - ai_usermode = mode - '0'; + ai_usermode = safe_usermode(mode - '0', true); } return count; } @@ -926,20 +953,11 @@ static int __init alignment_init(void) return -ENOMEM; #endif - /* - * ARMv6 and later CPUs can perform unaligned accesses for - * most single load and store instructions up to word size. - * LDM, STM, LDRD and STRD still need to be handled. - * - * Ignoring the alignment fault is not an option on these - * CPUs since we spin re-faulting the instruction without - * making any progress. - */ - if (cpu_architecture() >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6 && (cr_alignment & CR_U)) { + if (cpu_is_v6_unaligned()) { cr_alignment &= ~CR_A; cr_no_alignment &= ~CR_A; set_cr(cr_alignment); - ai_usermode = UM_FIXUP; + ai_usermode = safe_usermode(ai_usermode, false); } hook_fault_code(1, do_alignment, SIGBUS, BUS_ADRALN, |