The VIVT cache of a highmem page is always flushed before the page
is unmapped. This cache flush is explicit through flush_cache_kmaps()
in flush_all_zero_pkmaps(), or through __cpuc_flush_dcache_area() in
kunmap_atomic(). There is also an implicit flush of those highmem pages
that were part of a process that just terminated making those pages free
as the whole VIVT cache has to be flushed on every task switch. Hence
unmapped highmem pages need no cache maintenance in that case.
However unmapped pages may still be cached with a VIPT cache because the
cache is tagged with physical addresses. There is no need for a whole
cache flush during task switching for that reason, and despite the
explicit cache flushes in flush_all_zero_pkmaps() and kunmap_atomic(),
some highmem pages that were mapped in user space end up still cached
even when they become unmapped.
So, we do have to perform cache maintenance on those unmapped highmem
pages in the context of DMA when using a VIPT cache. Unfortunately,
it is not possible to perform that cache maintenance using physical
addresses as all the L1 cache maintenance coprocessor functions accept
virtual addresses only. Therefore we have no choice but to set up a
temporary virtual mapping for that purpose.
And of course the explicit cache flushing when unmapping a highmem page
on a system with a VIPT cache now can go, which should increase
performance.
While at it, because the code in __flush_dcache_page() has to be modified
anyway, let's also make sure the mapped highmem pages are pinned with
kmap_high_get() for the duration of the cache maintenance operation.
Because kunmap() does unmap highmem pages lazily, it was reported by
Gary King <GKing@nvidia.com> that those pages ended up being unmapped
during cache maintenance on SMP causing segmentation faults.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit 2c9b9c849 added an argument to __cpuc_flush_dcache_page
and renamed it.
Update a caller of the old function to fix this build error:
CC arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.o
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c: In function 'v6_copy_user_highpage_nonaliasing':
arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.c:51: error: implicit declaration of function '__cpuc_flush_dcache_page'
make[1]: *** [arch/arm/mm/copypage-v6.o] Error 1
make: *** [arch/arm/mm] Error 2
Reported-by: Jinsung Yang <jsgood.yang@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The I and D caches for copy-on-write pages on processors with
write-allocate caches become incoherent causing problems on application
relying on CoW for text pages (dynamic linker relocating symbols in a
text page). This patch flushes the D-cache for such pages.
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Our copy_user_highpage() implementations may require cache maintainence.
Ensure that implementations have all necessary details to perform this
maintainence.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
For similar reasons as copy_user_page(), we want to avoid the
additional kmap_atomic if it's unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We used to override the copy_user_page() function. However, this
is not only inefficient, it also causes additional complexity for
highmem support, since we convert from a struct page to a kernel
direct mapped address and back to a struct page again.
Moreover, with highmem support, we end up pointlessly setting up
kmap entries for pages which we're going to remap. So, push the
kmapping down into the copypage implementation files where it's
required.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Rather than pollute asm/cacheflush.h with the cache type definitions,
move them to asm/cachetype.h, and include this new header where
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
If PG_dcache_dirty is set for a page, we need to flush the source page
before performing any copypage operation using a different virtual address.
This fixes the copypage implementations for XScale, StrongARM and ARMv6.
This patch fixes segmentation faults seen in the dynamic linker under
the usage patterns in glibc 2.4/2.5.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
L_PTE_ASID is not really required to be stored in every PTE, since we
can identify it via the address passed to set_pte_at(). So, create
set_pte_ext() which takes the address of the PTE to set, the Linux
PTE value, and the additional CPU PTE bits which aren't encoded in
the Linux PTE value.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Move top_pmd into arch/arm/mm/mm.h - nothing outside arch/arm/mm
references it.
Move the repeated definition of TOP_PTE into mm/mm.h, as well as
a few function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
We know what pgprot we're going to use, so don't #define it. Also,
since we select the nonaliasing/aliasing copypage implementation at
run time, there's no point having it globally visible.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Nicolas Pitre