[PATCH 6/9] uprobes: flush cache after xol write

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Tue Oct 16 16:29:12 EDT 2012


2012/10/15 Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>:
> On 10/14, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>> Flush the cache so that the instructions written to the XOL area are
>> visible.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
>> ---
>>  kernel/events/uprobes.c |    1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
>> index ca000a9..8c52f93 100644
>> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
>> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
>> @@ -1246,6 +1246,7 @@ static unsigned long xol_get_insn_slot(struct uprobe *uprobe, unsigned long slot
>>       offset = current->utask->xol_vaddr & ~PAGE_MASK;
>>       vaddr = kmap_atomic(area->page);
>>       arch_uprobe_xol_copy(&uprobe->arch, vaddr + offset);
>> +     flush_dcache_page(area->page);
>>       kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
>
> I agree... but why under kmap_atomic?

No real reason; I'll move it to after the unmap.



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