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uprobes: Flush cache after xol write

Flush the cache so that the instructions written to the XOL area are
visible.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Rabin Vincent 12 years ago
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      kernel/events/uprobes.c

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kernel/events/uprobes.c

@@ -1199,6 +1199,11 @@ static unsigned long xol_get_insn_slot(struct uprobe *uprobe, unsigned long slot
 	vaddr = kmap_atomic(area->page);
 	memcpy(vaddr + offset, uprobe->arch.insn, MAX_UINSN_BYTES);
 	kunmap_atomic(vaddr);
+	/*
+	 * We probably need flush_icache_user_range() but it needs vma.
+	 * This should work on supported architectures too.
+	 */
+	flush_dcache_page(area->page);
 
 	return current->utask->xol_vaddr;
 }