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author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | 2009-09-04 00:45:59 +0400 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-04 22:20:07 +0400 |
commit | 7929eb9cf643ae416e5081b2a6fa558d37b9854c (patch) | |
tree | c4cbaa5ccdd1c929eba802374d80191b6f90e16c /arch/arm/mm | |
parent | c47a830c08a26a7c210ae16a0ffe3f56ba86ea69 (diff) | |
download | linux-7929eb9cf643ae416e5081b2a6fa558d37b9854c.tar.xz |
ARM: 5691/1: fix cache aliasing issues between kmap() and kmap_atomic() with highmem
Let's suppose a highmem page is kmap'd with kmap(). A pkmap entry is
used, the page mapped to it, and the virtual cache is dirtied. Then
kunmap() is used which does virtually nothing except for decrementing a
usage count.
Then, let's suppose the _same_ page gets mapped using kmap_atomic().
It is therefore mapped onto a fixmap entry instead, which has a
different virtual address unaware of the dirty cache data for that page
sitting in the pkmap mapping.
Fortunately it is easy to know if a pkmap mapping still exists for that
page and use it directly with kmap_atomic(), thanks to kmap_high_get().
And actual testing with a printk in the added code path shows that this
condition is actually met *extremely* frequently. Seems that we've been
quite lucky that things have worked so well with highmem so far.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/mm/highmem.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c b/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c index a34954d9df7d..73cae57fa707 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c +++ b/arch/arm/mm/highmem.c @@ -40,11 +40,16 @@ void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page, enum km_type type) { unsigned int idx; unsigned long vaddr; + void *kmap; pagefault_disable(); if (!PageHighMem(page)) return page_address(page); + kmap = kmap_high_get(page); + if (kmap) + return kmap; + idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR * smp_processor_id(); vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM @@ -80,6 +85,9 @@ void kunmap_atomic(void *kvaddr, enum km_type type) #else (void) idx; /* to kill a warning */ #endif + } else if (vaddr >= PKMAP_ADDR(0) && vaddr < PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP)) { + /* this address was obtained through kmap_high_get() */ + kunmap_high(pte_page(pkmap_page_table[PKMAP_NR(vaddr)])); } pagefault_enable(); } |