[PATCH] arm: cmpxchg syscall should data abort if page not write or not young
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Mar 14 06:40:38 EDT 2011
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 06:28:36PM +0800, Po-Yu Chuang wrote:
> From: Po-Yu Chuang <ratbert at faraday-tech.com>
>
> If the page to cmpxchg is user mode read only (not write)
> or invalid (not young), we should simulate a data abort first.
No. If it is not young then it should be made young. Age is an effect
of accesses. It's not a permission.
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