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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-04-28 18:51:43 -0400
committerChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>2012-05-16 16:01:16 -0400
commitfc327e268fbef08e129ad51aa3a7113ee9bc6ba5 (patch)
treeba75f2ac9509090c6896a4fbc6be7c3aaba1aaf6 /arch/tile/kernel/process.c
parentLinux 3.4-rc7 (diff)
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arch/tile: fix up some issues in calling do_work_pending()
First, we were at risk of handling thread-info flags, in particular do_signal(), when returning from kernel space. This could happen after a failed kernel_execve(), or when forking a kernel thread. The fix is to test in do_work_pending() for user_mode() and return immediately if so; we already had this test for one of the flags, so I just hoisted it to the top of the function. Second, if a ptraced process updated the callee-saved registers in the ptregs struct and then processed another thread-info flag, we would overwrite the modifications with the original callee-saved registers. To fix this, we add a register to note if we've already saved the registers once, and skip doing it on additional passes through the loop. To avoid a performance hit from the couple of extra instructions involved, I modified the GET_THREAD_INFO() macro to be guaranteed to be one instruction, then bundled it with adjacent instructions, yielding an overall net savings. Reported-By: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/tile/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/tile/kernel/process.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
index 2d5ef617bb39..54e6c64b85cc 100644
--- a/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/tile/kernel/process.c
@@ -567,6 +567,10 @@ struct task_struct *__sched _switch_to(struct task_struct *prev,
*/
int do_work_pending(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 thread_info_flags)
{
+ /* If we enter in kernel mode, do nothing and exit the caller loop. */
+ if (!user_mode(regs))
+ return 0;
+
if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_NEED_RESCHED) {
schedule();
return 1;
@@ -589,8 +593,7 @@ int do_work_pending(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 thread_info_flags)
return 1;
}
if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_SINGLESTEP) {
- if ((regs->ex1 & SPR_EX_CONTEXT_1_1__PL_MASK) == 0)
- single_step_once(regs);
+ single_step_once(regs);
return 0;
}
panic("work_pending: bad flags %#x\n", thread_info_flags);