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    ARM: I-cache: flush executable mappings in flush_cache_range() · 6060e8df
    Russell King authored
    Dirk Behme reported instability on ARM11 SMP (VIPT non-aliasing cache)
    caused by the dynamic linker changing protection on text pages to write
    GOT entries.  The problem is due to an interaction between the write
    faulting code providing new anonymous pages which are incoherent with
    the I-cache due to write buffering, and the I-cache not having been
    invalidated.
    
    a4db94d plugs the hole with the data cache coherency.  This patch
    provides the other half of the fix by flushing the I-cache in
    flush_cache_range() for VM_EXEC VMAs (which is what we have when the
    region is being made executable again.)  This ensures that the I-cache
    will be up to date with the newly COW'd pages.
    
    Note: if users are writing instructions, then they still need to use
    the ARM sys_cacheflush API to ensure that the caches are correctly
    synchronized.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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