Re: cache alias in mmap + write

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Wed Jan 20 2010 - 04:10:47 EST


Hello,

> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 96ac6b0..07056fb 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -2196,6 +2196,9 @@ again:
> if (unlikely(status))
> break;
>
> + if (mapping_writably_mapped(mapping))
> + flush_dcache_page(page);
> +
> pagefault_disable();
> copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(page, i, offset, bytes);
> pagefault_enable();

I'm not sure ARM cache coherency model. but I guess correct patch is here.

+ if (mapping_writably_mapped(mapping))
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
+
pagefault_disable();
copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(page, i, offset, bytes);
pagefault_enable();
- flush_dcache_page(page);


Why do we need to call flush_dcache_page() twice?




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