From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V3 2/2] ARM: Handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:51:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130418135104.GA18616@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130418114016.GG27197@titan.lakedaemon.net>
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:40:16PM +0100, Jason Cooper wrote:
> Ok, got it. I should have been more explicit. LVM doesn't work on ARM.
> iirc, Simon had a demo of dm-crypt also faulting on ARM. This patch was
> not the correct approach. Is there an interest (particularly Simon) in
> fixing the problem?
I think fixing this for ARM is useful but I don't have any time to
allocate. I think I acked the first patch in the series but I don't
fully remember the details behind the second one.
As Russell said, flush_kernel_dcache_page() is not the right API.
flush_dcache_page() is not supposed to be used on anonymous pages. What
we have for such pages is flush_anon_page() which is a no-op for VIPT
non-aliasing pages. I can see that __get_user_pages() calls both
flush_anon_page() flush_dcache_page().
Is the problem that you have related to I-D cache coherency? Is
flush_anon_page() the right place for this?
--
Catalin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-18 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-07 11:29 [PATCH V2 0/2] fix and improvement of flush(_kernel)_dcache_page() Simon Baatz
2012-10-07 11:29 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] ARM: remove unnecessary flush of anon pages in flush_dcache_page() Simon Baatz
2012-10-08 11:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-10-08 17:38 ` Simon Baatz
2012-10-08 17:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-10-07 11:29 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] ARM: Handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page Simon Baatz
2012-10-08 17:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2012-10-08 20:02 ` Simon Baatz
2012-10-08 20:20 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-08 23:07 ` Simon Baatz
2012-11-18 21:10 ` Jason Cooper
2013-04-18 11:16 ` Jason Cooper
2013-04-18 11:22 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-04-18 11:40 ` Jason Cooper
2013-04-18 13:51 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-04-21 22:06 ` Simon Baatz
2013-04-30 11:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-30 21:04 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-01 14:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-01 19:04 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-02 9:54 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-02 19:38 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-03 10:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-04 8:21 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-08 15:08 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-08 18:43 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-05-08 19:31 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-08 21:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-09 1:52 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-11 6:27 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-13 3:12 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-05 22:26 ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-08 15:28 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-04-18 19:39 ` Simon Baatz
2013-04-18 19:00 ` Simon Baatz
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