Android 4.3 release 2
Use kernel cacheflush for large sizes on MIPS.
This is a workaround to a deserializer bug. The bug was exposed
with a recent optimization to use user-mode cache-flushing on
MIPS. To reduce risk, we're doing a workaround in mips-specific
code so that other arch's cannot be affected.
The deserializer does this FlushICache:
CPU::FlushICache(last_object_address_, Page::kPageSize);
However, that region includes OS guard-pages with no access
privilege. The MIPS kernel cacheflush routines work OK in this
case, but the Bionic cacheflush recently enabled user-mode flushing
using the synci instruction, which causes a segfault on MIPS when
the guard pages are reached.
(change I48fd6f2b0cbe80c3cd90f453ced97a2f154f7ad3)
The workaround just reverts to the kernel flush when the size
is Page::kPageSize or bigger.
A better fix would be to alter the deserializer so that only the
executable pages are flushed:
CPU::FlushICache(last_object_address_,
isolate_->memory_allocator()->CodePageAreaSize());
However, that changes common code for all supported architectures.
There is no evidence that this bug affects the other arch's, so we
are doing a MIPS-specific workaround.
(cherry-pick from AOSP)
bug: 8851838
Change-Id: I30b62eb579feab1453d3ae85a5fb9b408f91756b
Signed-off-by: Paul Lind <paul.lind@imgtec.com>
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