Patch "MIPS: Fix watchpoint restoration" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: Fix watchpoint restoration
to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mips-fix-watchpoint-restoration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 22:19:36 +0000
Subject: MIPS: Fix watchpoint restoration
From: James Hogan <[email protected]>
commit a7e89326b415b5d81c4b1016fd4a40db861eb58d upstream.
Commit f51246efee2b ("MIPS: Get rid of finish_arch_switch().") moved the __restore_watch() call from finish_arch_switch() (i.e. after resume() returns) to before the resume() call in switch_to(). This results in watchpoints only being restored when a task is descheduled, preventing the watchpoints from being effective most of the time, except due to chance before the watchpoints are lazily removed.
Fix the call sequence from switch_to() through to mips_install_watch_registers() to pass the task_struct pointer of the next task, instead of using current. This allows the watchpoints for the next (non-current) task to be restored without reintroducing finish_arch_switch().
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12726/
--- arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h | 2 +- arch/mips/include/asm/watch.h | 10 +++++----- arch/mips/kernel/pm.c | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/watch.c | 5 ++--- 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h +1 -1
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ do { \__clear_software_ll_bit (); \if (cpu_has_userlocal) \write_c0_userlocal (task_thread_info (next)->tp_value); \ -__restore_watch (); \ +__restore_watch (next); \ (last) =resume (prev, next,task_thread_info (next)); \ }while (0 )
arch/mips/include/asm/watch.h +5 -5
@@ -12,21 +12,21 @@#include <asm/mipsregs.h> -void mips_install_watch_registers (void ); +void mips_install_watch_registers (struct task_struct *t);void mips_read_watch_registers (void );void mips_clear_watch_registers (void );void mips_probe_watch_registers (struct cpuinfo_mips *c);#ifdef CONFIG_HARDWARE_WATCHPOINTS -#define __restore_watch () do { \ +#define __restore_watch (task) do { \ if (unlikely(test_bit(TIF_LOAD_WATCH, \ - ¤t_thread_info()->flags))) { \ - mips_install_watch_registers(); \ + &task_thread_info(task)->flags))) { \ + mips_install_watch_registers(task); \ } \ } while (0)#else -#define __restore_watch () do {} while (0) +#define __restore_watch (task) do {} while (0)#endif #endif /* _ASM_WATCH_H */
arch/mips/kernel/pm.c +1 -1
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void mips_cpu_restore(void)write_c0_userlocal (current_thread_info ()->tp_value);/* Restore watch registers */ -__restore_watch (); +__restore_watch (current); }/**
arch/mips/kernel/watch.c +2 -3
@@ -15,10 +15,9 @@* Install the watch registers for the current thread. A maximum of * four registers are installed although the machine may have more. */ -void mips_install_watch_registers (void ) +void mips_install_watch_registers (struct task_struct *t) { -struct mips3264_watch_reg_state *watches = - ¤t->thread.watch.mips3264; +struct mips3264_watch_reg_state *watches = &t->thread.watch.mips3264;switch (current_cpu_data.watch_reg_use_cnt) {default :BUG ();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.5/mips64-r6-r2-emulation-bugfix.patch queue-4.5/mips-fix-uapi-include-in-exported-asm-siginfo.h.patch queue-4.5/mips-disable-preemption-during-prctl-pr_set_fp_mode.patch queue-4.5/mips-fix-sigreturn-via-vdso-on-micromips-kernel.patch queue-4.5/mips-fix-siginfo.h-to-use-strict-posix-types.patch queue-4.5/mips-don-t-unwind-to-user-mode-with-eva.patch queue-4.5/mips-vdso-build-with-fno-strict-aliasing.patch queue-4.5/mips-fix-watchpoint-restoration.patch queue-4.5/mips-build-micromips-vdso-for-micromips-kernels.patch queue-4.5/mips-math-emu-fix-jalr-emulation-when-rd-0.patch queue-4.5/mips-fix-msa-ld_-st_-asm-macros-to-use-ptr_addu.patch queue-4.5/mips-avoid-using-unwind_stack-with-usermode.patch queue-4.5/mips-prevent-restoration-of-msa-context-in-non-msa-kernels.patch queue-4.5/mips-use-copy_s.fmt-rather-than-copy_u.fmt.patch