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parisc: fix cache-flushing

PATCH New Helge Deller 1 participant 1 message Jan 31, 2014 PA-RISC architecture

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PATCH 1/1 parisc: fix cache-flushing

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f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40: parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap caused negative caching side-effects, e.g. hanging processes with expect and too many inequivalent alias messages from flush_dcache_page() on Debian 5 systems.

This patch now partly reverts it and has been in production use on our debian buildd makeservers since a week without any major problems.

Signed-off-by Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by John David Anglin <[email protected]>
Cc [email protected] # v3.9+
arch/parisc/include/asm/cacheflush.h +0 -2
index 2f9b751..de65f66 100644
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ void mark_rodata_ro(void);
 static inline void *kmap(struct page *page)
 {
 	might_sleep();
-	flush_dcache_page(page);
 	return page_address(page);
 }
 

@@ -144,7 +143,6 @@ static inline void kunmap(struct page *page)
 static inline void *kmap_atomic(struct page *page)
 {
 	pagefault_disable();
-	flush_dcache_page(page);
 	return page_address(page);
 }
arch/parisc/include/asm/page.h +2 -1
index c53fc63..637fe03 100644
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ struct page;
 void clear_page_asm(void *page);
 void copy_page_asm(void *to, void *from);
 #define clear_user_page(vto, vaddr, page) clear_page_asm(vto)
-#define copy_user_page(vto, vfrom, vaddr, page) copy_page_asm(vto, vfrom)
+void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
+			struct page *pg);
 
 /* #define CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS */
arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c +14 -0
index a725455..ac87a40 100644
@@ -388,6 +388,20 @@ void flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr(void *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr);
 
+void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
+	struct page *pg)
+{
+       /* Copy using kernel mapping.  No coherency is needed (all in
+	  kunmap) for the `to' page.  However, the `from' page needs to
+	  be flushed through a mapping equivalent to the user mapping
+	  before it can be accessed through the kernel mapping. */
+	preempt_disable();
+	flush_dcache_page_asm(__pa(vfrom), vaddr);
+	preempt_enable();
+	copy_page_asm(vto, vfrom);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_user_page);
+
 void purge_tlb_entries(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;