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| author | Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]> | 2006-09-30 23:29:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2006-10-01 00:39:31 -0700 |
| commit | db71daabad0821996483dfe309c4bc81d6755a70 (patch) | |
| tree | 10e60d91178ccb0d1fd1c47321fc6c096db926e5 /include/linux/debugobjects.h | |
| parent | 74588d8ba34ff1bda027cfa737972af01ab00c8b (diff) | |
[PATCH] Generic ioremap_page_range: flush_cache_vmap
The existing implementation of ioremap_page_range(), which was taken
from i386, does this:
flush_cache_all();
/* modify page tables */
flush_tlb_all();
I think this is a bit defensive, so this patch changes the generic
implementation to do:
/* modify page tables */
flush_cache_vmap(start, end);
instead, which is similar to what vmalloc() does. This should still
be correct because we never modify existing PTEs. According to
James Bottomley:
The problem the flush_tlb_all() is trying to solve is to avoid stale tlb
entries in the ioremap area. We're just being conservative by flushing
on both map and unmap. Technically what vmalloc/vfree does (only flush
the tlb on unmap) is just fine because it means that the only tlb
entries in the remap area must belong to in-use mappings.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mundt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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