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ARM: 7641/1: memory: fix broken mmap by ensuring TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is aligned 

We have received multiple reports of mmap failures when running with a
2:2 vm split. These manifest as either -EINVAL with a non page-aligned
address (ending 0xaaa) or a SEGV, depending on the application. The
issue is commonly observed in children of make, which appears to use
bottom-up mmap (assumedly because it changes the stack rlimit).

Further investigation reveals that this regression was triggered by
394ef6403a ("mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on arm architecture"), whereby
TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is no longer page-aligned for bottom-up mmap, causing
get_unmapped_area to choke on misaligned addressed.

This patch fixes the problem by defining TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE in terms of
TASK_SIZE and explicitly aligns the result to 16M, matching the other
end of the heap.

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Reported-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Reported-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@cs.columbia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Will Deacon 2013-02-08 12:52:29 +01:00 committed by Russell King
parent 633dc92a28
commit 79d1f5c9ac
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*/
#define PAGE_OFFSET UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET)
#define TASK_SIZE (UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) - UL(0x01000000))
#define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE (UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) / 3)
#define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE ALIGN(TASK_SIZE / 3, SZ_16M)
/*
* The maximum size of a 26-bit user space task.