Thread (69 messages) 69 messages, 9 authors, 2011-08-08

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fixup write permission of TLB on powerpc e500 core

From: Peter Zijlstra <hidden>
Date: 2011-07-15 10:24:00
Also in: lkml

On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 16:07 +0800, Shan Hai wrote:
The kernel has no write permission on COW pages by default on e500 core, =
this
will cause endless loop in futex_lock_pi, because futex code assumes the =
kernel
has write permission on COW pages. Grant write permission to the kernel o=
n COW
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
pages when access violation page fault occurs.
=20
Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <redacted>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h |   11 ++++++++++-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h   |   25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
=20
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/=
futex.h
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
index c94e4a3..54c3e74 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/futex.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <asm/errno.h>
 #include <asm/synch.h>
 #include <asm/asm-compat.h>
+#include <asm/tlb.h>
=20
 #define __futex_atomic_op(insn, ret, oldval, uaddr, oparg) \
   __asm__ __volatile ( \
@@ -113,7 +114,15 @@ futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(u32 *uval, u32 __user =
*uaddr,
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
         : "cc", "memory");
=20
 	*uval =3D prev;
-        return ret;
+
+	/* Futex assumes the kernel has permission to write to
+	 * COW pages, grant the kernel write permission on COW
+	 * pages because it has none by default.
+	 */
+	if (ret =3D=3D -EFAULT)
+		__tlb_fixup_write_permission(current->mm, (unsigned long)uaddr);
+
+	return ret;
 }
=20
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tl=
b.h
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
index e2b428b..3863c6a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -45,5 +45,30 @@ static inline void __tlb_remove_tlb_entry(struct mmu_g=
ather *tlb, pte_t *ptep,
 #endif
 }
=20
+/* Grant write permission to the kernel on a page. */
+static inline void __tlb_fixup_write_permission(struct mm_struct *mm,
+						unsigned long address)
+{
+#if defined(CONFIG_FSL_BOOKE)
+	/* Grant write permission to the kernel on a page by setting TLB.SW
+	 * bit, the bit setting operation is tricky here, calling
+	 * handle_mm_fault with FAULT_FLAG_WRITE causes _PAGE_DIRTY bit of
+	 * the pte to be set, the _PAGE_DIRTY of the pte is translated into
+	 * TLB.SW on Powerpc e500 core.
+	 */
+
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+
+	vma =3D find_vma(mm, address);
Uhm, find_vma() needs mmap_sem, and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is
most certainly not called with that lock held.
+	if (likely(vma)) {
+		/* only fixup present page */
+		if (follow_page(vma, address, FOLL_WRITE)) {
+			handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, FAULT_FLAG_WRITE);
So how can this toggle your sw dirty/young tracking, that's pretty much
what gup(.write=3D1) does too!
+			flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+		}
+	}
+#endif
+}
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* __ASM_POWERPC_TLB_H */
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