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author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2006-10-21 23:17:35 +0100 |
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committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2006-10-21 23:17:35 +0100 |
commit | f8829caee311207afbc882794bdc5aa0db5caf33 (patch) | |
tree | dbadd9fa746a1a4f091bc7e240ca8d787188a913 /lib/cmdline.c | |
parent | 224dc50ece1b40f8cff5ecadd42a6b2691e231de (diff) |
[MIPS] Fix aliasing bug in copy_to_user_page / copy_from_user_page
The current implementation uses a sequence of a cacheflush and a copy.
This is racy in case of a multithreaded debuggee and renders GDB
virtually unusable.
Aside this fixes a performance hog rendering access to /proc/cmdline very
slow and resulting in a enough cache stalls for the 34K AP/SP programming
model to make the bare metal code on the non-Linux VPE miss RT deadlines.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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