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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2006-10-21 23:17:35 +0100
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2006-10-21 23:17:35 +0100
commitf8829caee311207afbc882794bdc5aa0db5caf33 (patch)
treedbadd9fa746a1a4f091bc7e240ca8d787188a913 /include
parent224dc50ece1b40f8cff5ecadd42a6b2691e231de (diff)
downloadlinux-f8829caee311207afbc882794bdc5aa0db5caf33.tar.gz
[MIPS] Fix aliasing bug in copy_to_user_page / copy_from_user_page
The current implementation uses a sequence of a cacheflush and a copy.
This is racy in case of a multithreaded debuggee and renders GDB
virtually unusable.

Aside this fixes a performance hog rendering access to /proc/cmdline very
slow and resulting in a enough cache stalls for the 34K AP/SP programming
model to make the bare metal code on the non-Linux VPE miss RT deadlines.

The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-mips/cacheflush.h19
-rw-r--r--include/asm-mips/fixmap.h14
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-mips/cacheflush.h
index 9ab59e2bb233..e3c9925876a3 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/cacheflush.h
@@ -55,24 +55,13 @@ extern void (*flush_icache_range)(unsigned long start, unsigned long end);
 #define flush_cache_vmap(start, end)		flush_cache_all()
 #define flush_cache_vunmap(start, end)		flush_cache_all()
 
-static inline void copy_to_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+extern void copy_to_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr, void *dst, const void *src,
-	unsigned long len)
-{
-	if (cpu_has_dc_aliases)
-		flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page));
-	memcpy(dst, src, len);
-	__flush_icache_page(vma, page);
-}
+	unsigned long len);
 
-static inline void copy_from_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+extern void copy_from_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	struct page *page, unsigned long vaddr, void *dst, const void *src,
-	unsigned long len)
-{
-	if (cpu_has_dc_aliases)
-		flush_cache_page(vma, vaddr, page_to_pfn(page));
-	memcpy(dst, src, len);
-}
+	unsigned long len);
 
 extern void (*flush_cache_sigtramp)(unsigned long addr);
 extern void (*flush_icache_all)(void);
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/fixmap.h b/include/asm-mips/fixmap.h
index 6959bdb59310..02c8a13fc894 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/fixmap.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/fixmap.h
@@ -45,8 +45,16 @@
  * fix-mapped?
  */
 enum fixed_addresses {
+#define FIX_N_COLOURS 8
+	FIX_CMAP_BEGIN,
+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMTC
+	FIX_CMAP_END = FIX_CMAP_BEGIN + (FIX_N_COLOURS * NR_CPUS),
+#else
+	FIX_CMAP_END = FIX_CMAP_BEGIN + FIX_N_COLOURS,
+#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
-	FIX_KMAP_BEGIN,	/* reserved pte's for temporary kernel mappings */
+	/* reserved pte's for temporary kernel mappings */
+	FIX_KMAP_BEGIN = FIX_CMAP_END + 1,
 	FIX_KMAP_END = FIX_KMAP_BEGIN+(KM_TYPE_NR*NR_CPUS)-1,
 #endif
 	__end_of_fixed_addresses
@@ -70,9 +78,9 @@ extern void __set_fixmap (enum fixed_addresses idx,
  * at the top of mem..
  */
 #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_TX39XX) || defined(CONFIG_CPU_TX49XX)
-#define FIXADDR_TOP	(0xff000000UL - 0x2000)
+#define FIXADDR_TOP	((unsigned long)(long)(int)(0xff000000 - 0x20000))
 #else
-#define FIXADDR_TOP	(0xffffe000UL)
+#define FIXADDR_TOP	((unsigned long)(long)(int)0xfffe0000)
 #endif
 #define FIXADDR_SIZE	(__end_of_fixed_addresses << PAGE_SHIFT)
 #define FIXADDR_START	(FIXADDR_TOP - FIXADDR_SIZE)