[PATCH v2 1/6] mm: rmap: fix cache flush on THP pages

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Feb 02 2022 - 09:34:30 EST


The flush_cache_page() only remove a PAGE_SIZE sized range from the cache.
However, it does not cover the full pages in a THP except a head page.
Replace it with flush_cache_range() to fix this issue. At least, no
problems were found due to this. Maybe because the architectures that
have virtual indexed caches is less.

Fixes: f27176cfc363 ("mm: convert page_mkclean_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/rmap.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index b0fd9dc19eba..0ba12dc9fae3 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -974,7 +974,8 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!pmd_dirty(*pmd) && !pmd_write(*pmd))
continue;

- flush_cache_page(vma, address, page_to_pfn(page));
+ flush_cache_range(vma, address,
+ address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
entry = pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pmd);
entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
entry = pmd_mkclean(entry);
--
2.11.0