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author | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200 |
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committer | Frederic Weisbecker | 2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200 |
commit | 0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch) | |
tree | 94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | |
parent | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff) | |
parent | perf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts:
kernel/Makefile
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/trace.h
samples/Makefile
Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development
branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of
perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c index ad06d5c75b15..94e2df3cae07 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ + /* * Copyright (C) 2004 Benjamin Herrenschmidt, IBM Corp. * <benh@kernel.crashing.org> @@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ static int vdso_ready; static union { struct vdso_data data; u8 page[PAGE_SIZE]; -} vdso_data_store __attribute__((__section__(".data.page_aligned"))); +} vdso_data_store __page_aligned_data; struct vdso_data *vdso_data = &vdso_data_store.data; /* Format of the patch table */ @@ -203,7 +204,12 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp) } else { vdso_pagelist = vdso64_pagelist; vdso_pages = vdso64_pages; - vdso_base = VDSO64_MBASE; + /* + * On 64bit we don't have a preferred map address. This + * allows get_unmapped_area to find an area near other mmaps + * and most likely share a SLB entry. + */ + vdso_base = 0; } #else vdso_pagelist = vdso32_pagelist; @@ -235,6 +241,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp) } /* + * Put vDSO base into mm struct. We need to do this before calling + * install_special_mapping or the perf counter mmap tracking code + * will fail to recognise it as a vDSO (since arch_vma_name fails). + */ + current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base; + + /* * our vma flags don't have VM_WRITE so by default, the process isn't * allowed to write those pages. * gdb can break that with ptrace interface, and thus trigger COW on @@ -254,11 +267,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp) VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC| VM_ALWAYSDUMP, vdso_pagelist); - if (rc) + if (rc) { + current->mm->context.vdso_base = 0; goto fail_mmapsem; - - /* Put vDSO base into mm struct */ - current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base; + } up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return 0; |