linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm/futex: Fix futex writes on archs with SW tracking of dirty & young

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:36:06 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Shan Hai <haishan.bai@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, paulus@...ba.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, walken@...gle.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
	cmetcalf@...era.com, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] mm/futex: Fix futex writes on archs with SW
 tracking of dirty & young

On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:29:22 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:

> The futex code currently attempts to write to user memory within
> a pagefault disabled section, and if that fails, tries to fix it
> up using get_user_pages().
> 
> This doesn't work on archs where the dirty and young bits are
> maintained by software, since they will gate access permission
> in the TLB, and will not be updated by gup().
> 
> In addition, there's an expectation on some archs that a
> spurious write fault triggers a local TLB flush, and that is
> missing from the picture as well.
> 
> I decided that adding those "features" to gup() would be too much
> for this already too complex function, and instead added a new
> simpler fixup_user_fault() which is essentially a wrapper around
> handle_mm_fault() which the futex code can call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> ---
> 
> Shan, can you test this ? It might not fix the problem

um, what problem.  There's no description here of the user-visible
effects of the bug hence it's hard to work out what kernel version(s)
should receive this patch.

What kernel version(s) should receive this patch?

> since I'm
> starting to have the nasty feeling that you are hitting what is
> somewhat a subtly different issue or my previous patch should
> have worked (but then I might have done a stupid mistake as well)
> but let us know anyway.

I assume that Shan reported the secret problem so I added the
reported-by to the changelog.

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