Ping? This is 1.1 material in my opinion...

(patchwork url: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/158556/)

-- PMM

On 11 May 2012 17:25, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 11 May 2012 09:40, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote:
>> If we execute linux-user code that does the following:
>>
>>  * A = mmap()
>>  * execute code in A
>>  * munmap(A)
>>  * B = mmap(), but mmap returns the same address as A
>>  * execute code in B
>>
>> we end up executing a stale cached tb that contains translated code
>> from A, while we want new code from B.
>>
>> This patch adds a TB flush for mmap'ed regions, before we return them,
>> avoiding the whole issue. It also adds a flush for munmap, so that we
>> don't execute stale TBs instead of getting a segfault.
>>
>> Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de>
>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
>
> -- PMM

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