[PATCH] ARM: vfp: Prevent process migration during vfp_init()

From: Hyungwoo Yang
Date: Thu May 03 2012 - 19:49:13 EST


System crashes if there is process migration during vfp_init() call.

During vfp_init(), if a process which called vfp_enable() is migrated just
after the call, then the process executing the rest of code will access
a VFP unit which is not ENABLED and also smp_call_function() will not work
as it is expected.

This patch prevents accessing VFP unit disabled by preventing migration
and also replaces smp_call_function() with on_each_cpu() to make sure that
no VFP remains disabled.

Signed-off-by: Hyungwoo Yang <hyungwooy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c | 9 +++++++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
index bc683b8..fefa4cb 100644
--- a/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
+++ b/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c
@@ -655,7 +655,9 @@ static int __init vfp_init(void)
{
unsigned int vfpsid;
unsigned int cpu_arch = cpu_architecture();
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ preempt_disable();
+#endif
if (cpu_arch >= CPU_ARCH_ARMv6)
vfp_enable(NULL);

@@ -669,6 +671,9 @@ static int __init vfp_init(void)
vfpsid = fmrx(FPSID);
barrier();
vfp_vector = vfp_null_entry;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+ preempt_enable();
+#endif

printk(KERN_INFO "VFP support v0.3: ");
if (VFP_arch)
@@ -678,7 +683,7 @@ static int __init vfp_init(void)
} else {
hotcpu_notifier(vfp_hotplug, 0);

- smp_call_function(vfp_enable, NULL, 1);
+ on_each_cpu(vfp_enable, NULL, 1);

VFP_arch = (vfpsid & FPSID_ARCH_MASK) >> FPSID_ARCH_BIT; /*
Extract the architecture version */
printk("implementor %02x architecture %d part %02x variant %x rev %x\n",
--
1.7.0.4
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