Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

[Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>]

Given that no one has any outstanding issues with the following patch, I'm
going to ask akpm to put this into -mm, and shortly after (a week or so)
I'll submit it and the ARM flush_anon_page() patch to Linus for -rc to fix
ARM data corruption issues.

If anyone _does_ have a problem, holler ASAP.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 05:17:39PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 04:53:56PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Yes, note the flush_dcache_page() call in fuse_copy_finish().  That
> > could be replaced by the flush_kernel_dcache_page() (added by James
> > Bottomley together with flush_anon_page()) when all relevant
> > architectures have defined it.
> 
> I should say that flush_anon_page() in its current form is going to be
> problematic for ARM.  It is passed:
> 
> 1. the struct page
> 2. the virtual address in process memory for the page
> 
> It is not passed the mm or vma.  This means that we have no idea whether
> the virtual address is in the currently mapped VM space or not.  The
> common use of get_area_pages() is to get pages from other address
> spaces.
> 
> If we use the supplied virtual address to perform cache maintainence of
> the userspace mapping, we might end up hitting a completely different
> processes address space, which may contain some page sensitive to such
> operations, or may not contain any page and thereby could cause a page
> fault on some ARM CPUs.
> 
> Hence, I first need something like this patch so I can tell if the
> page to be flushed is in the current VMs address space or not:

diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt
index 73e794f..920d0f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt
@@ -373,7 +373,8 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
 	likely that you will need to flush the instruction cache
 	for copy_to_user_page().
 
-  void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+  void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
+                       unsigned long vmaddr)
   	When the kernel needs to access the contents of an anonymous
 	page, it calls this function (currently only
 	get_user_pages()).  Note: flush_dcache_page() deliberately
diff --git a/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h
index aedb051..a799dd8 100644
--- a/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h
+++ b/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *
 }
 
 static inline void
-flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
 {
 	if (PageAnon(page))
 		flush_user_dcache_page(vmaddr);
diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h
index ca9a602..645d440 100644
--- a/include/linux/highmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/highmem.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
 
 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ANON_PAGE
-static inline void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
+static inline void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr)
 {
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c00bac6..13970fe 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t
 			if (pages) {
 				pages[i] = page;
 
-				flush_anon_page(page, start);
+				flush_anon_page(vma, page, start);
 				flush_dcache_page(page);
 			}
 			if (vmas)


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