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authorScott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>2008-02-06 06:43:26 +1100
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2008-02-06 16:30:01 +1100
commit551ed332da2f52daf5d01fc76d2a894aba79d316 (patch)
treea7b6ef800cf9d32344fe3e6989eb17607e00fd3c /arch/powerpc/platforms
parentf5903ede0015db5b53458092b6ae2af074fa49d4 (diff)
[POWERPC] update_mmu_cache: Don't cache-flush non-readable pages
Currently, update_mmu_cache will crash if given a no-access PTE. There's no need to synchronize dcache/icache unless it's an exec mapping -- however, due to the existence of older glibc versions that execute out of a read-but-no-exec page, readability is tested instead. This assumes no exec-only mappings; if such mappings become supported, they will need to go through the kmap_atomic() version of dcache/icache synchronization. This fixes a bug reported by some users where the kernel would crash while dumping core on a threaded program. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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