[MIPS] Fix aliasing bug in copy_to_user_page / copy_from_user_page
The current implementation uses a sequence of a cacheflush and a copy.
This is racy in case of a multithreaded debuggee and renders GDB
virtually unusable.
Aside this fixes a performance hog rendering access to /proc/cmdline very
slow and resulting in a enough cache stalls for the 34K AP/SP programming
model to make the bare metal code on the non-Linux VPE miss RT deadlines.
The main part of this patch was originally written by Ralf Baechle;
Atushi Nemoto did the the debugging.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/pgtable-64.c b/arch/mips/mm/pgtable-64.c
index 44b5e97f..8d600d3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/mm/pgtable-64.c
+++ b/arch/mips/mm/pgtable-64.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
*/
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <asm/fixmap.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
void pgd_init(unsigned long page)
@@ -52,7 +53,17 @@
void __init pagetable_init(void)
{
+ unsigned long vaddr;
+ pgd_t *pgd_base;
+
/* Initialize the entire pgd. */
pgd_init((unsigned long)swapper_pg_dir);
pmd_init((unsigned long)invalid_pmd_table, (unsigned long)invalid_pte_table);
+
+ pgd_base = swapper_pg_dir;
+ /*
+ * Fixed mappings:
+ */
+ vaddr = __fix_to_virt(__end_of_fixed_addresses - 1) & PMD_MASK;
+ fixrange_init(vaddr, 0, pgd_base);
}