From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
Cc: tip-bot for Marcin Nowakowski <tipbot@zytor.com>,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
acme@kernel.org, acme@redhat.com, mingo@kernel.org,
victor.kamensky@linaro.org, jolsa@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] uprobes: Fix uprobes on MIPS, allow for a cache flush after ixol breakpoint creation
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:50:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161220175004.GB7776@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8707b178-15e0-1ca0-5612-f42d771446cc@imgtec.com>
On 12/20, Marcin Nowakowski wrote:
>
> Hi Oleg,
>
> On 20.12.2016 14:08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> On 12/19, tip-bot for Marcin Nowakowski wrote:
>>>
>>> uprobes: Fix uprobes on MIPS, allow for a cache flush after ixol breakpoint creation
>>>
>>> Commit:
>>>
>>> 72e6ae285a1d ('ARM: 8043/1: uprobes need icache flush after xol write'
>>>
>>> ... has introduced an arch-specific method to ensure all caches are
>>> flushed appropriately after an instruction is written to an XOL page.
>>
>> when this page is already mmaped,
>>
>>> However, when the XOL area is created and the out-of-line breakpoint
>>> instruction is copied, caches are not flushed at all and stale data may
>>> be found in icache.
>>
>> but in this case the page is not mmaped yet, the probed application will
>> take a page fault if it tries to execute this insn,
>
> In case of MIPS (and AFAICT ARM as well, and these are the only
> architectures that implement arch_uprobe_copy_ixol), the cache flushing
> is done through the kernel addresses of that page, so the fact that it
> is not mapped yet is not an issue.
OK, thanks,
> Do I understand correctly that your statement implies that after the
> page fault and mmapping the xol page, the page is guaranteed to be
> updated in the cache? As definitely that is not something that is
> happening at the moment.
Well, I do not know. Let me repeat I don't understand this flush_.*cache
magic.
But. do_read_fault() does
__do_fault(..., &fault_page, ...);
alloc_set_pte(fault_page);
and alloc_set_pte() does flush_icache_page(vma, page)... Hmm, which is nop
on MIPS.
>> OK, I know nothing about MIPS, but could you help me understand this change?
>>
>> See above. If we really need flush_icache_range() here then perhaps we should
>> modify install_special_mapping() and/or __do_fault/special_mapping_fault paths
>> instead?
>
> Are you suggesting that those should be updated to force a cache update?
Again, I do not know. But perhaps it makes more sense to actually implement
flush_icache_page() ? Otherwise another user of install_special_mapping()
can hit the same problem?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-20 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-13 10:40 [PATCH] uprobes: allow for a cache flush after ixol breakpoint creation Marcin Nowakowski
2016-12-20 7:58 ` [tip:perf/urgent] uprobes: Fix uprobes on MIPS, " tip-bot for Marcin Nowakowski
2016-12-20 13:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-12-20 15:21 ` Marcin Nowakowski
2016-12-20 17:50 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-12-21 11:24 ` Ralf Baechle
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