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From: catalin.marinas@arm•com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V4] ARM: handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:55:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130528095528.GA14329@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1305242350220.1918@syhkavp.arg>

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 04:53:19AM +0100, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> 
> > An issue is that for kunmap_atomic() && VIVT we flush the same page
> > twice. I don't think we should remove the cache flushing in
> > __kunmap_atomic() for VIVT since not all kunmap_atomic() calls require
> > flush_kernel_dcache_page() (unless we just assume that highmem && vivt
> > don't work together).
> 
> VIVT and highmem do work together.  Highmem for ARM was in fact 
> developed on such a platform.

Thanks for confirming. Do you remember why kunmap() doesn't (need to)
flush the cache alias (for VIVT)? Or if it does, where?

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-28  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-12  5:35 [PATCH V4] ARM: handle user space mapped pages in flush_kernel_dcache_page Simon Baatz
2013-05-23 10:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-25  3:53   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-28  9:55     ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-05-28 17:52       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-29 10:37         ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-29 14:39           ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-29 16:32             ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-29 17:33               ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-27 21:42   ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-28 10:20     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-28 18:50       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-05-29 11:05 ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-29 19:16   ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-30 16:43     ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-31 12:05       ` Jason Cooper
2013-05-31 14:15         ` Catalin Marinas
2013-05-31 14:20           ` Jason Cooper
2013-06-03 17:38           ` Simon Baatz
2013-06-03 18:03             ` Jason Cooper
2013-06-03 19:11               ` Simon Baatz
2013-06-03 19:22               ` Jason Cooper
2013-06-03 20:38                 ` Greg KH
2013-06-05 13:58             ` Catalin Marinas
2013-06-05 19:55               ` Simon Baatz
2013-05-31  9:07 ` Ming Lei
2013-05-31 18:54   ` Simon Baatz
2013-06-01 10:27     ` Ming Lei
2013-06-03  9:33       ` Catalin Marinas

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