[ARM] 4659/1: remove possibilities for spurious false negative with __kuser_cmpxchg
The ARM __kuser_cmpxchg routine is meant to implement an atomic cmpxchg
in user space. It however can produce spurious false negative if a
processor exception occurs in the middle of the operation. Normally
this is not a problem since cmpxchg is typically called in a loop until
it succeeds to implement an atomic increment for example.
Some use cases which don't involve a loop require that the operation be
100% reliable though. This patch changes the implementation so to
reattempt the operation after an exception has occurred in the critical
section rather than abort it.
Here's a simple program to test the fix (don't use CONFIG_NO_HZ in your
kernel as this depends on a sufficiently high interrupt rate):
#include <stdio.h>
typedef int (__kernel_cmpxchg_t)(int oldval, int newval, int *ptr);
#define __kernel_cmpxchg (*(__kernel_cmpxchg_t *)0xffff0fc0)
int main()
{
int i, x = 0;
for (i = 0; i < 100000000; i++) {
int v = x;
if (__kernel_cmpxchg(v, v+1, &x))
printf("failed at %d: %d vs %d\n", i, v, x);
}
printf("done with %d vs %d\n", i, x);
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
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* existence. Don't ever use this from user code.
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*/
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case 0xfff0:
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{
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for (;;) {
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extern void do_DataAbort(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr,
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struct pt_regs *regs);
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unsigned long val;
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@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ asmlinkage int arm_syscall(int no, struct pt_regs *regs)
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up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
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/* simulate a write access fault */
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do_DataAbort(addr, 15 + (1 << 11), regs);
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return -1;
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}
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#endif
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