Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm/futex: Fix futex writes on archs with SWtracking of dirty & young

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 06:22:24 EST


On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 12:17 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 11:09 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Can you inline this for the NOMMU case please?
>
> ---
> Subject: mm: Fix fixup_user_fault() for MMU=n
>
> In commit 2efaca927 ("mm/futex: fix futex writes on archs with SW
> tracking of dirty & young") we forgot about MMU=n. This patch fixes
> that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>

Hoping the BUG() isn't trippable by userspace but then it's no mmu, it's
not like we care what userspace can do right :-)

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !

Cheers,
Ben.

> ---
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -962,6 +962,8 @@ int invalidate_inode_page(struct page *p
> #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
> extern int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long address, unsigned int flags);
> +extern int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
> + unsigned long address, unsigned int fault_flags);
> #else
> static inline int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
> struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
> @@ -971,6 +973,14 @@ static inline int handle_mm_fault(struct
> BUG();
> return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> }
> +static inline int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
> + unsigned int fault_flags)
> +{
> + /* should never happen if there's no MMU */
> + BUG();
> + return -EFAULT;
> +}
> #endif
>
> extern int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end);
> @@ -988,8 +998,6 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t
> int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
> struct page **pages);
> struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr);
> -extern int fixup_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
> - unsigned long address, unsigned int fault_flags);
>
> extern int try_to_release_page(struct page * page, gfp_t gfp_mask);
> extern void do_invalidatepage(struct page *page, unsigned long offset);
>
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