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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/highmem.h | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index da42ab414c48..b231414bb8bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -377,3 +377,27 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. All the functionality of flush_icache_page can be implemented in flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache. In 2.7 the hope is to remove this interface completely. + +The final category of APIs is for I/O to deliberately aliased address +ranges inside the kernel. Such aliases are set up by use of the +vmap/vmalloc API. Since kernel I/O goes via physical pages, the I/O +subsystem assumes that the user mapping and kernel offset mapping are +the only aliases. This isn't true for vmap aliases, so anything in +the kernel trying to do I/O to vmap areas must manually manage +coherency. It must do this by flushing the vmap range before doing +I/O and invalidating it after the I/O returns. + + void flush_kernel_vmap_range(void *vaddr, int size) + flushes the kernel cache for a given virtual address range in + the vmap area. This is to make sure that any data the kernel + modified in the vmap range is made visible to the physical + page. The design is to make this area safe to perform I/O on. + Note that this API does *not* also flush the offset map alias + of the area. + + void invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(void *vaddr, int size) invalidates + the cache for a given virtual address range in the vmap area + which prevents the processor from making the cache stale by + speculatively reading data while the I/O was occurring to the + physical pages. This is only necessary for data reads into the + vmap area. diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h index 211ff4497269..adfe1013b2bd 100644 --- a/include/linux/highmem.h +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h @@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ static inline void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page static inline void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page) { } +static inline void flush_kernel_vmap_range(void *vaddr, int size) +{ +} +static inline void invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(void *vaddr, int size) +{ +} #endif #include <asm/kmap_types.h> |