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author | Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> | 2009-09-03 21:45:59 +0100 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2009-09-04 19:20:07 +0100 |
commit | 7929eb9cf643ae416e5081b2a6fa558d37b9854c (patch) | |
tree | c4cbaa5ccdd1c929eba802374d80191b6f90e16c /arch/mips/include/asm/compat.h | |
parent | c47a830c08a26a7c210ae16a0ffe3f56ba86ea69 (diff) |
ARM: 5691/1: fix cache aliasing issues between kmap() and kmap_atomic() with highmem
Let's suppose a highmem page is kmap'd with kmap(). A pkmap entry is
used, the page mapped to it, and the virtual cache is dirtied. Then
kunmap() is used which does virtually nothing except for decrementing a
usage count.
Then, let's suppose the _same_ page gets mapped using kmap_atomic().
It is therefore mapped onto a fixmap entry instead, which has a
different virtual address unaware of the dirty cache data for that page
sitting in the pkmap mapping.
Fortunately it is easy to know if a pkmap mapping still exists for that
page and use it directly with kmap_atomic(), thanks to kmap_high_get().
And actual testing with a printk in the added code path shows that this
condition is actually met *extremely* frequently. Seems that we've been
quite lucky that things have worked so well with highmem so far.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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