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authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>2009-09-21 12:57:40 -0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-09-24 01:31:45 -0400
commitf2053f1a7bf6005b4e81826b1ac8d0b4117c4cf0 (patch)
treed8c69b5ead3bfb5b09d05dd4804ce022cdea8883 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parent8bbde7a7062facf8af35bcc9a64cbafe8f36f3cf (diff)
powerpc/perf_counter: Fix vdso detection
perf_counter uses arch_vma_name() to detect a vdso region which in turn uses current->mm->context.vdso_base. We need to initialise this before doing the mmap or else we fail to detect the vdso. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
index 3faaf29bdb29..94e2df3cae07 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso.c
@@ -241,6 +241,13 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
241 } 241 }
242 242
243 /* 243 /*
244 * Put vDSO base into mm struct. We need to do this before calling
245 * install_special_mapping or the perf counter mmap tracking code
246 * will fail to recognise it as a vDSO (since arch_vma_name fails).
247 */
248 current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base;
249
250 /*
244 * our vma flags don't have VM_WRITE so by default, the process isn't 251 * our vma flags don't have VM_WRITE so by default, the process isn't
245 * allowed to write those pages. 252 * allowed to write those pages.
246 * gdb can break that with ptrace interface, and thus trigger COW on 253 * gdb can break that with ptrace interface, and thus trigger COW on
@@ -260,11 +267,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
260 VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC| 267 VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC|
261 VM_ALWAYSDUMP, 268 VM_ALWAYSDUMP,
262 vdso_pagelist); 269 vdso_pagelist);
263 if (rc) 270 if (rc) {
271 current->mm->context.vdso_base = 0;
264 goto fail_mmapsem; 272 goto fail_mmapsem;
265 273 }
266 /* Put vDSO base into mm struct */
267 current->mm->context.vdso_base = vdso_base;
268 274
269 up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); 275 up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
270 return 0; 276 return 0;