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

From: Andreas Larsson
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 02:45:43 EST



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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
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@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Andreas Larsson
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