It's wrong for several reasons, but the most direct one is that the
fault may be for the stack accesses to set up a previous SIGBUS. When
we have a kernel exception, the kernel exception handler does all the
fixups, not some user-level signal handler.
Even apart from the nested SIGBUS issue, it's also wrong to give out
kernel fault addresses in the signal handler info block, or to send a
SIGBUS when a system call already returns EFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Limit number of per cpu TSC sync messages
x86: dumpstack, 64-bit: Disable preemption when walking the IRQ/exception stacks
x86: dumpstack: Clean up the x86_stack_ids[][] initalization and other details
x86, cpu: mv display_cacheinfo -> cpu_detect_cache_sizes
x86: Suppress stack overrun message for init_task
x86: Fix cpu_devs[] initialization in early_cpu_init()
x86: Remove CPU cache size output for non-Intel too
x86: Minimise printk spew from per-vendor init code
x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's
cpumask: Avoid cpumask_t in arch/x86/kernel/apic/nmi.c
x86: Make sure we also print a Code: line for show_regs()
init_task doesn't get its stack end location set to
STACK_END_MAGIC, and hence the message is confusing
rather than helpful in this case.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B06AEFE02000078000211F4@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
...
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!
In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.
Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.
All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)
The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.
Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.
User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)
This patch has been generated via the following script:
FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')
sed -i \
-e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
-e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
-e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
-e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
-e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
-e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
$FILES
for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
mv $N $M
done
FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)
sed -i \
-e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
-e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
-e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
-e 's/counter/event/g' \
-e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
$FILES
... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.
Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.
( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )
Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to the x86 page fault handler. This is
very similar to VM_FAULT_OOM, the only difference is that a different
si_code is passed to user space and the new addr_lsb field is initialized.
v2: Make the printk more verbose/unique
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, highmem_32.c: Clean up comment
x86, pgtable.h: Clean up types
x86: Clean up dump_pagetable()
Add __kprobes to the functions which handle in-kernel fixable page
faults. Since kprobes can cause those in-kernel page faults by accessing
kprobe data structures, probing those fault functions will cause
fault-int3-loop (do_page_fault has already been marked as __kprobes).
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20090827172311.8246.92725.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Since commit 5fd29d6c ("printk: clean up handling of log-levels
and newlines"), the kernel logs segfaults like:
<6>gnome-power-man[24509]: segfault at 20 ip 00007f9d4950465a sp 00007fffbb50fc70 error 4 in libgobject-2.0.so.0.2103.0[7f9d494f7000+45000]
with the extra "<6>" being KERN_INFO. This happens because the
printk in show_signal_msg() started with KERN_CONT and then
used "%s" to pass in the real level; and KERN_CONT is no longer
an empty string, and printk only pays attention to the level at
the very beginning of the format string.
Therefore, remove the KERN_CONT from this printk, since it is
now actively causing problems (and never really made any
sense).
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <874otjitkj.fsf@shaolin.home.digitalvampire.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit 5fd29d6ccb ("printk: clean up
handling of log-levels and newlines") changed printk semantics. printk
lines with multiple KERN_<level> prefixes are no longer emitted as
before the patch.
<level> is now included in the output on each additional use.
Remove all uses of multiple KERN_<level>s in formats.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use pgtable access helpers for 32-bit version dump_pagetable()
and get rid of __typeof__() operators. This needs to make
pmd_pfn() available for 2-level pgtable.
Also, remove some casts for 64-bit version dump_pagetable().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090627063514.GA2834@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz
flags to handle_mm_fault(). All callers have been (mechanically)
converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room
for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY
when that support is added.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (45 commits)
x86, mce: fix error path in mce_create_device()
x86: use zalloc_cpumask_var for mce_dev_initialized
x86: fix duplicated sysfs attribute
x86: de-assembler-ize asm/desc.h
i386: fix/simplify espfix stack switching, move it into assembly
i386: fix return to 16-bit stack from NMI handler
x86, ioapic: Don't call disconnect_bsp_APIC if no APIC present
x86: Remove duplicated #include's
x86: msr.h linux/types.h is only required for __KERNEL__
x86: nmi: Add Intel processor 0x6f4 to NMI perfctr1 workaround
x86, mce: mce_intel.c needs <asm/apic.h>
x86: apic/io_apic.c: dmar_msi_type should be static
x86, io_apic.c: Work around compiler warning
x86: mce: Don't touch THERMAL_APIC_VECTOR if no active APIC present
x86: mce: Handle banks == 0 case in K7 quirk
x86, boot: use .code16gcc instead of .code16
x86: correct the conversion of EFI memory types
x86: cap iomem_resource to addressable physical memory
x86, mce: rename _64.c files which are no longer 64-bit-specific
x86, mce: mce.h cleanup
...
Manually fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/mm/fault.c
Prefetch instructions can generate spurious faults on certain
models of older CPUs. The faults themselves cannot be stopped
and they can occur pretty much anywhere - so the way we solve
them is that we detect certain patterns and ignore the fault.
There is one small path of code where we must not take faults
though: the #PF handler execution leading up to the reading
of the CR2 (the faulting address). If we take a fault there
then we destroy the CR2 value (with that of the prefetching
instruction's) and possibly mishandle user-space or
kernel-space pagefaults.
It turns out that in current upstream we do exactly that:
prefetchw(&mm->mmap_sem);
/* Get the faulting address: */
address = read_cr2();
This is not good.
So turn around the order: first read the cr2 then prefetch
the lock address. Reading cr2 is plenty fast (2 cycles) so
delaying the prefetch by this amount shouldnt be a big issue
performance-wise.
[ And this might explain a mystery fault.c warning that sometimes
occurs on one an old AMD/Semptron based test-system i have -
which does have such prefetch problems. ]
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
LKML-Reference: <20090616030522.GA22162@Krystal>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The hooks that we modify are:
- Page fault handler (to handle kmemcheck faults)
- Debug exception handler (to hide pages after single-stepping
the instruction that caused the page fault)
Also redefine memset() to use the optimized version if kmemcheck is
enabled.
(Thanks to Pekka Enberg for minimizing the impact on the page fault
handler.)
As kmemcheck doesn't handle MMX/SSE instructions (yet), we also disable
the optimized xor code, and rely instead on the generic C implementation
in order to avoid false-positive warnings.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
[whitespace fixlet]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Pure renames only, to PERF_COUNT_HW_* and PERF_COUNT_SW_*.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-xen-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (42 commits)
xen: cache cr0 value to avoid trap'n'emulate for read_cr0
xen/x86-64: clean up warnings about IST-using traps
xen/x86-64: fix breakpoints and hardware watchpoints
xen: reserve Xen start_info rather than e820 reserving
xen: add FIX_TEXT_POKE to fixmap
lguest: update lazy mmu changes to match lguest's use of kvm hypercalls
xen: honour VCPU availability on boot
xen: add "capabilities" file
xen: drop kexec bits from /sys/hypervisor since kexec isn't implemented yet
xen/sys/hypervisor: change writable_pt to features
xen: add /sys/hypervisor support
xen/xenbus: export xenbus_dev_changed
xen: use device model for suspending xenbus devices
xen: remove suspend_cancel hook
xen/dev-evtchn: clean up locking in evtchn
xen: export ioctl headers to userspace
xen: add /dev/xen/evtchn driver
xen: add irq_from_evtchn
xen: clean up gate trap/interrupt constants
xen: set _PAGE_NX in __supported_pte_mask before pagetable construction
...
Andrew pointed out that the 'once' variable has a needlessly
function-global scope. We can in fact eliminate it completely,
via the use of printk_once().
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul suggested we allow for data addresses to be recorded along with
the traditional IPs as power can provide these.
For now, only the software pagefault events provide data addresses,
but in the future power might as well for some events.
x86 doesn't seem capable of providing this atm.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408130409.394816925@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Provide separate sw counters for major and minor page faults.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
We use the generic software counter infrastructure to provide
page fault events.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Eliminate more than 20 unnecessary #include lines in fault.c
Also fix include file dependency bug in asm/traps.h. (this was
masked before, by implicit inclusion)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <tip-56aea8468746e673a4bf50b6a13d97b2d1cbe1e8@git.kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Impact: simplification, robustness
Make paravirt_lazy_mode() always return PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE
when in an interrupt. This prevents interrupt code from
accidentally inheriting an outer lazy state, and instead
does everything synchronously. Outer batched operations
are left deferred.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: extend prefetch handling on 64-bit
Currently there's an extra is_prefetch() check done in do_sigbus(),
which we only do on 32 bits.
This is a last-ditch check before we terminate a task, so it's worth
giving prefetch instructions another chance - should none of our
existing quirks have caught a prefetch instruction related spurious
fault.
The only risk is if a prefetch causes a real sigbus, in that case
we'll not OOM but try another fault. But this code has been on
32-bit for a long time, so it should be fine in practice.
So do this on 64-bit too - and thus remove one more #ifdef.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Removal of an #ifdef in fault_in_kernel_space(), by making
use of the new TASK_SIZE_MAX symbol which is now available
on 32-bit too.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)
This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
do_page_fault() has this ugly #ifdef in its prototype:
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
asmlinkage
#endif
void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
Replace it with 'dotraplinkage' which maps to exactly the above
construct: nothing on 32-bit and asmlinkage on 64-bit.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add oops-recursion check to 32-bit
Unify the oops state-machine, to the 64-bit version. It is
slightly more careful in that it does a recursion check
in oops_begin(), and is thus more likely to show the relevant
oops.
It also means that 32-bit will print one more line at the
end of pagefault triggered oopses:
printk(KERN_EMERG "CR2: %016lx\n", address);
Which is generally good information to be seen in partial-dump
digital-camera jpegs ;-)
The downside is the somewhat more complex critical path. Both
variants have been tested well meanwhile by kernel developers
crashing their boxes so i dont think this is a practical worry.
This removes 3 ugly #ifdefs from no_context() and makes the
function a lot nicer read.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: refine/extend page fault related oops printing on 64-bit
- honor the pause_on_oops logic on 64-bit too
- print out NX fault warnings on 64-bit as well
- factor out the NX fault message to make it git-greppable and readable
Note that this means that we do the PF_INSTR check on 32-bit non-PAE
as well where it should not occur ... normally. Cannot hurt.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Remove an #ifdef from notify_page_fault(). The function still
compiles to nothing in the !CONFIG_KPROBES case.
Introduce kprobes_built_in() and kprobe_fault_handler() helpers
to allow this - they returns 0 if !CONFIG_KPROBES.
No code changed:
text data bss dec hex filename
4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.before
4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Remove an #ifdef from kmmio_fault() - we can do this by
providing default implementations for is_kmmio_active()
and kmmio_handler(). The compiler optimizes it all away
in the !CONFIG_MMIOTRACE case.
Also, while at it, clean up mmiotrace.h a bit:
- standard header guards
- standard vertical spaces for structure definitions
No code changed (both with mmiotrace on and off in the config):
text data bss dec hex filename
2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.before
2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.after
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: improve page fault handling robustness
The 'PF_RSVD' flag (bit 3) of the page-fault error_code is a
relatively recent addition to x86 CPUs, so the 32-bit do_fault()
implementation never had it. This flag gets set when the CPU
detects nonzero values in any reserved bits of the page directory
entries.
Extend the existing 64-bit check for PF_RSVD in do_page_fault()
to 32-bit too. If we detect such a fault then we print a more
informative oops and the pagetables.
This unifies the code some more, removes an ugly #ifdef and improves
the 32-bit page fault code robustness a bit. It slightly increases
the 32-bit kernel text size.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Instead of an ugly, open-coded, #ifdef-ed vm86 related legacy check
in do_page_fault(), put it into the check_v8086_mode() helper
function and merge it with an existing #ifdef.
Also, simplify the code flow a tiny bit in the helper.
No code changed:
arch/x86/mm/fault.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.before
2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.after
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: no functionality changed
Factor out the opcode checker into a helper inline.
The code got a tiny bit smaller:
text data bss dec hex filename
4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before
4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after
And it got cleaner / easier to review as well.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup, no code changed
Clean up various small details, which can be correctness checked
automatically:
- tidy up the include file section
- eliminate unnecessary includes
- introduce show_signal_msg() to clean up code flow
- standardize the code flow
- standardize comments and other style details
- more cleanups, pointed out by checkpatch
No code changed on either 32-bit nor 64-bit:
arch/x86/mm/fault.o:
text data bss dec hex filename
4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before
4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.after
the md5 changed due to a change in a single instruction:
2e8a8241e7f0d69706776a5a26c90bc0 fault.o.before.asm
c5c3d36e725586eb74f0e10692f0193e fault.o.after.asm
Because a __LINE__ reference in a WARN_ONCE() has changed.
On 32-bit a few stack offsets changed - no code size difference
nor any functionality difference.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions
If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access,
but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault
as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of:
fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault
This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions
but the PMD does not.
[ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* commit 'remotes/tip/x86/paravirt': (175 commits)
xen: use direct ops on 64-bit
xen: make direct versions of irq_enable/disable/save/restore to common code
xen: setup percpu data pointers
xen: fix 32-bit build resulting from mmu move
x86/paravirt: return full 64-bit result
x86, percpu: fix kexec with vmlinux
x86/vmi: fix interrupt enable/disable/save/restore calling convention.
x86/paravirt: don't restore second return reg
xen: setup percpu data pointers
x86: split loading percpu segments from loading gdt
x86: pass in cpu number to switch_to_new_gdt()
x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and_wait()
x86/paravirt: fix missing callee-save call on pud_val
x86/paravirt: use callee-saved convention for pte_val/make_pte/etc
x86/paravirt: implement PVOP_CALL macros for callee-save functions
x86/paravirt: add register-saving thunks to reduce caller register pressure
x86/paravirt: selectively save/restore regs around pvops calls
x86: fix paravirt clobber in entry_64.S
x86/pvops: add a paravirt_ident functions to allow special patching
xen: move remaining mmu-related stuff into mmu.c
...
Conflicts:
arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c
arch/x86/mm/fault.c
Prevent kprobes from catching spurious faults which will cause infinite
recursive page-fault and memory corruption by stack overflow.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: cleanup
Introduce helper function fault_in_kernel_address() to make editors happy.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Linus Torvalds