[PATCH v2 1/6] powerpc: Allow flush_icache_range to work across ranges >4GB

Alastair D'Silva alastair at au1.ibm.com
Mon Sep 16 13:25:57 AEST 2019


On Sat, 2019-09-14 at 09:46 +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> Le 03/09/2019 à 07:23, Alastair D'Silva a écrit :
> > From: Alastair D'Silva <alastair at d-silva.org>
> > 
> > When calling flush_icache_range with a size >4GB, we were masking
> > off the upper 32 bits, so we would incorrectly flush a range
> > smaller
> > than intended.
> > 
> > This patch replaces the 32 bit shifts with 64 bit ones, so that
> > the full size is accounted for.
> 
> Isn't there the same issue in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/cacheflush.S
> ?
> 
> Christophe

Yes, there is. I'll fix it, but I wonder whether anything calls it? I
asked Google, and every mention of it was in the kernel source or
mailing list.

Maybe BenH can chime in?

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