Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core

Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index a0abce251d0..94e2df3cae0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 /*
  *    Copyright (C) 2004 Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM Corp.
  *			 <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ static int vdso_ready;
 static union {
 	struct vdso_data	data;
 	u8			page[PAGE_SIZE];
-} vdso_data_store __attribute__((__section__(".data.page_aligned")));
+} vdso_data_store __page_aligned_data;
 struct vdso_data *vdso_data = &vdso_data_store.data;
 
 /* Format of the patch table */
@@ -240,6 +241,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Put vDSO base into mm struct. We need to do this before calling
+	 * install_special_mapping or the perf counter mmap tracking code
+	 * will fail to recognise it as a vDSO (since arch_vma_name fails).
+	 */
+	current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base;
+
+	/*
 	 * our vma flags don't have VM_WRITE so by default, the process isn't
 	 * allowed to write those pages.
 	 * gdb can break that with ptrace interface, and thus trigger COW on
@@ -259,11 +267,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
 				     VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
 				     VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
 				     vdso_pagelist);
-	if (rc)
+	if (rc) {
+		current->mm->context.vdso_base = 0;
 		goto fail_mmapsem;
-
-	/* Put vDSO base into mm struct */
-	current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base;
+	}
 
 	up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	return 0;