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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-03 10:16:43 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-03 14:01:40 -0700
commite419b4cc585680940bc42f8ca8a071d6023fb1bb (patch)
tree8fce0f12b7b2a0fdca7a937af137910011efa783 /arch
parentac001e76546523ec2ef05b2f7001d8fdc588d069 (diff)
vfs: make word-at-a-time accesses handle a non-existing page
It turns out that there are more cases than CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that can have holes in the kernel address space: it seems to happen easily with Xen, and it looks like the AMD gart64 code will also punch holes dynamically. Actually hitting that case is still very unlikely, so just do the access, and take an exception and fix it up for the very unlikely case of it being a page-crosser with no next page. And hey, this abstraction might even help other architectures that have other issues with unaligned word accesses than the possible missing next page. IOW, this could do the byte order magic too. Peter Anvin fixed a thinko in the shifting for the exception case. Reported-and-tested-by: Jana Saout <jana@saout.de> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h33
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 1d14cc6b79a..c9866b0b77d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ config X86
select CLKEVT_I8253
select ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
select GENERIC_IOMAP
- select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+ select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
def_bool (KPROBES || PERF_EVENTS)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
index 6fe6767b712..e58f03b206c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -43,4 +43,37 @@ static inline unsigned long has_zero(unsigned long a)
return ((a - REPEAT_BYTE(0x01)) & ~a) & REPEAT_BYTE(0x80);
}
+/*
+ * Load an unaligned word from kernel space.
+ *
+ * In the (very unlikely) case of the word being a page-crosser
+ * and the next page not being mapped, take the exception and
+ * return zeroes in the non-existing part.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long load_unaligned_zeropad(const void *addr)
+{
+ unsigned long ret, dummy;
+
+ asm(
+ "1:\tmov %2,%0\n"
+ "2:\n"
+ ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n"
+ "3:\t"
+ "lea %2,%1\n\t"
+ "and %3,%1\n\t"
+ "mov (%1),%0\n\t"
+ "leal %2,%%ecx\n\t"
+ "andl %4,%%ecx\n\t"
+ "shll $3,%%ecx\n\t"
+ "shr %%cl,%0\n\t"
+ "jmp 2b\n"
+ ".previous\n"
+ _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b)
+ :"=&r" (ret),"=&c" (dummy)
+ :"m" (*(unsigned long *)addr),
+ "i" (-sizeof(unsigned long)),
+ "i" (sizeof(unsigned long)-1));
+ return ret;
+}
+
#endif /* _ASM_WORD_AT_A_TIME_H */