[patch 1/4] sparc/mm/highmem: Flush cache and TLB

Andreas Larsson andreas at gaisler.com
Wed Jan 13 18:44:24 AEDT 2021


On 2021-01-12 18:01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The recent conversion to the generic kmap_local infrastructure failed to
> assign the proper pre/post map/unmap flush operations for sparc.
> 
> Sparc requires cache flush before map/unmap and tlb flush afterwards.
> 
> Fixes: 3293efa97807 ("sparc/mm/highmem: Switch to generic kmap atomic")
> Reported-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas at gaisler.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: sparclinux at vger.kernel.org
> ---
>   arch/sparc/include/asm/highmem.h |    9 +++++----
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/highmem.h
> +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/highmem.h
> @@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ extern pte_t *pkmap_page_table;
>   
>   #define flush_cache_kmaps()	flush_cache_all()
>   
> -/* FIXME: Use __flush_tlb_one(vaddr) instead of flush_cache_all() -- Anton */
> -#define arch_kmap_local_post_map(vaddr, pteval)	flush_cache_all()
> -#define arch_kmap_local_post_unmap(vaddr)	flush_cache_all()
> -
> +/* FIXME: Use __flush_*_one(vaddr) instead of flush_*_all() -- Anton */
> +#define arch_kmap_local_pre_map(vaddr, pteval)	flush_cache_all()
> +#define arch_kmap_local_pre_unmap(vaddr)	flush_cache_all()
> +#define arch_kmap_local_post_map(vaddr, pteval)	flush_tlb_all()
> +#define arch_kmap_local_post_unmap(vaddr)	flush_tlb_all()
>   
>   #endif /* __KERNEL__ */

Yes! I found, just an hour before your patched was posted, that an
equivalent fix helped back where the switch-to-generic patch first
occurred. This patch was successfully tested on master.

Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas at gaisler.com>

-- 
Andreas Larsson
Cobham Gaisler


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