Revision 38860b2c8bb1b92f61396eb06a63adff916fc31d authored by John David Anglin on 08 November 2021, 21:48:16 UTC, committed by Helge Deller on 13 November 2021, 21:10:56 UTC
For years, there have been random segmentation faults in userspace on SMP PA-RISC machines. It occurred to me that this might be a problem in set_pte_at(). MIPS and some other architectures do cache flushes when installing PTEs with the present bit set. Here I have adapted the code in update_mmu_cache() to flush the kernel mapping when the kernel flush is deferred, or when the kernel mapping may alias with the user mapping. This simplifies calls to update_mmu_cache(). I also changed the barrier in set_pte() from a compiler barrier to a full memory barrier. I know this change is not sufficient to fix the problem. It might not be needed. I have had a few days of operation with 5.14.16 to 5.15.1 and haven't seen any random segmentation faults on rp3440 or c8000 so far. Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 5.12+
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Kbuild
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#
# Kbuild for top-level directory of the kernel
#####
# Generate bounds.h
bounds-file := include/generated/bounds.h
always-y := $(bounds-file)
targets := kernel/bounds.s
$(bounds-file): kernel/bounds.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__LINUX_BOUNDS_H__)
#####
# Generate timeconst.h
timeconst-file := include/generated/timeconst.h
filechk_gentimeconst = echo $(CONFIG_HZ) | bc -q $<
$(timeconst-file): kernel/time/timeconst.bc FORCE
$(call filechk,gentimeconst)
#####
# Generate asm-offsets.h
offsets-file := include/generated/asm-offsets.h
always-y += $(offsets-file)
targets += arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s
arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s: $(timeconst-file) $(bounds-file)
$(offsets-file): arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/asm-offsets.s FORCE
$(call filechk,offsets,__ASM_OFFSETS_H__)
#####
# Check for missing system calls
always-y += missing-syscalls
quiet_cmd_syscalls = CALL $<
cmd_syscalls = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $< $(CC) $(c_flags) $(missing_syscalls_flags)
missing-syscalls: scripts/checksyscalls.sh $(offsets-file) FORCE
$(call cmd,syscalls)
#####
# Check atomic headers are up-to-date
always-y += old-atomics
quiet_cmd_atomics = CALL $<
cmd_atomics = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $<
old-atomics: scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh FORCE
$(call cmd,atomics)
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