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authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2010-10-15 12:45:00 +0200
committerRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2010-10-15 12:45:00 +0200
commit6268464b370e234e0255330190f9bd5d19386ad7 (patch)
tree5742641092ce64227dd2086d78baaede57da1f80 /arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
parent7df01d96b295e400167e78061b81d4c91630b12d (diff)
parent0fdf13606b67f830559abdaad15980c7f4f05ec4 (diff)
downloadlinux-6268464b370e234e0255330190f9bd5d19386ad7.tar.bz2
Merge remote branch 'tip/perf/core' into oprofile/core
Conflicts: arch/arm/oprofile/common.c kernel/perf_event.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm/alignment.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/alignment.c19
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
index d073b64ae87e..724ba3bce72c 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/alignment.c
@@ -885,8 +885,23 @@ do_alignment(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (ai_usermode & UM_SIGNAL)
force_sig(SIGBUS, current);
- else
- set_cr(cr_no_alignment);
+ else {
+ /*
+ * We're about to disable the alignment trap and return to
+ * user space. But if an interrupt occurs before actually
+ * reaching user space, then the IRQ vector entry code will
+ * notice that we were still in kernel space and therefore
+ * the alignment trap won't be re-enabled in that case as it
+ * is presumed to be always on from kernel space.
+ * Let's prevent that race by disabling interrupts here (they
+ * are disabled on the way back to user space anyway in
+ * entry-common.S) and disable the alignment trap only if
+ * there is no work pending for this thread.
+ */
+ raw_local_irq_disable();
+ if (!(current_thread_info()->flags & _TIF_WORK_MASK))
+ set_cr(cr_no_alignment);
+ }
return 0;
}