From: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: mm: Facilitate debugging CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS disabled
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 00:00:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFqt6zYxY+ocQPwNnV3CE7pTrUFniQETcxsq4Dsof41E91L6BQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181025180957.7900-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:40 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some software such as perf makes unconditional use of the special
> [vectors] page which is only provided when CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS is
> enabled in the kernel.
>
> Facilitate the debugging of such situations by printing a debug message
> to the kernel log showing the task name and the faulting address.
>
> Suggested-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/arm/mm/fault.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> index f4ea4c62c613..f17471fbc1c4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> @@ -173,6 +173,11 @@ __do_user_fault(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long addr,
> show_regs(regs);
> }
> #endif
> +#ifndef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS
Just have one doubt, if the condition is "#ifdef CONFIG_KUSER_HELPER"
as commit message suggests the scenario is valid when CONFIG_KUSER_HELPER
is enabled ? No ?
> + if ((sig == SIGSEGV) && ((addr & PAGE_MASK) == 0xffff0000))
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS disabled at 0x%08lx\n",
> + tsk->comm, addr);
> +#endif
>
> tsk->thread.address = addr;
> tsk->thread.error_code = fsr;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-25 18:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-25 18:09 [PATCH] ARM: mm: Facilitate debugging CONFIG_KUSER_HELPERS disabled Florian Fainelli
2018-10-25 18:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-10-25 18:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-10-25 18:30 ` Souptick Joarder [this message]
2018-10-25 18:48 ` Florian Fainelli
2018-10-25 19:06 ` Souptick Joarder
2018-10-25 21:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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