From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: jsun@mvista.com
Subject: Re: Properly implement flush_dcache_page in 2.4? (Or is it possible?)
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 16:00:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030530160002.D1669@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530190929.E9419@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:09:29PM +0100
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:09:29PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:32:54AM -0700, Jun Sun wrote:
> > So my question is: how other CPU arches with the same problem
> > implement flush_dcache_page()? Flushing the whole cache? Or
> > have a broken implementation and pretend it is OK? :)
>
> See __flush_dcache_page() in arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c in 2.5.70.
>
Is this routine tested to be working? At least passing a page
index as a full virtual address to flush_cache_page() looks suspicious.
In addition, I am not sure if the vma struct will show up in the
"shared" list _if_ the page is only mapped in one user process and
in kernel (for example, those pages you obtain through get_user_pages()
call).
I am not familiar with 2.5 kernel. I was under impression that reverse
page mapping might provide an easy solution to this problem.
Jun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-30 17:32 Properly implement flush_dcache_page in 2.4? (Or is it possible?) Jun Sun
2003-05-30 18:09 ` Russell King
2003-05-30 23:00 ` Jun Sun [this message]
2003-05-30 23:14 ` Russell King
2003-05-31 0:18 ` Jun Sun
2003-05-31 7:24 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-05-31 7:52 ` Russell King
2003-05-31 8:33 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-05-31 9:19 ` Russell King
2003-05-31 10:09 ` Hugh Dickins
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