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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:41 -0700
commitc34d1b4d165c67b966bca4aba026443d7ff161eb (patch)
tree27ffca9daba2a6b16d29bd508faf3e68bda2aad1 /mm
parentc0718806cf955d5eb51ea77bffb5b21d9bba4972 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: kill check_user_page_readable
check_user_page_readable is a problematic variant of follow_page. It's used only by oprofile's i386 and arm backtrace code, at interrupt time, to establish whether a userspace stackframe is currently readable. This is problematic, because we want to push the page_table_lock down inside follow_page, and later split it; whereas oprofile is doing a spin_trylock on it (in the i386 case, forgotten in the arm case), and needs that to pin perhaps two pages spanned by the stackframe (which might be covered by different locks when we split). I think oprofile is going about this in the wrong way: it doesn't need to know the area is readable (neither i386 nor arm uses read protection of user pages), it doesn't need to pin the memory, it should simply __copy_from_user_inatomic, and see if that succeeds or not. Sorry, but I've not got around to devising the sparse __user annotations for this. Then we can eliminate check_user_page_readable, and return to a single follow_page without the __follow_page variants. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c29
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 25 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 622a4ef5409f..51f7c0a220d4 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -809,8 +809,7 @@ unsigned long zap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
* Do a quick page-table lookup for a single page.
* mm->page_table_lock must be held.
*/
-static struct page *__follow_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
- int read, int write, int accessed)
+struct page *follow_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, int write)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
pud_t *pud;
@@ -846,16 +845,12 @@ static struct page *__follow_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
if (pte_present(pte)) {
if (write && !pte_write(pte))
goto out;
- if (read && !pte_read(pte))
- goto out;
pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
- if (accessed) {
- if (write && !pte_dirty(pte) &&!PageDirty(page))
- set_page_dirty(page);
- mark_page_accessed(page);
- }
+ if (write && !pte_dirty(pte) &&!PageDirty(page))
+ set_page_dirty(page);
+ mark_page_accessed(page);
return page;
}
}
@@ -864,22 +859,6 @@ out:
return NULL;
}
-inline struct page *
-follow_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, int write)
-{
- return __follow_page(mm, address, 0, write, 1);
-}
-
-/*
- * check_user_page_readable() can be called frm niterrupt context by oprofile,
- * so we need to avoid taking any non-irq-safe locks
- */
-int check_user_page_readable(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
-{
- return __follow_page(mm, address, 1, 0, 0) != NULL;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_user_page_readable);
-
static inline int
untouched_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct* mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address)