linux-kernel - Re: [patch v3 30/36] Hexagon: Add page-fault support.

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Date:	Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:34:29 -0500
From:	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-hexagon@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linas Vepstas <linas@...eaurora.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [patch v3 30/36] Hexagon: Add page-fault support.

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:08:49PM -0300, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Are you sure about enabling interrupts before going to "no_context" ?
> 
> If somebody does a user access "in atomic" with interrupt disabled (with
> the expectation that a fault would be caught by search_exception_tables
> and returned as -EFAULT), such code probably doesn't expect interrupts
> to be re-enabled implicitely.

I hadn't considered that...  I'll review this and make sure this isn't what
we intended (it probably isn't) and get it fixed.


Thanks,
Richard Kuo


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