[BUG] bug when enabling VM DEBUG
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed May 12 08:24:59 EDT 2010
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 12:53 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> * Catalin Marinas | 2010-05-12 12:10:39 [+0100]:
>
> >> > --- a/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
> >> > +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c
> >> > @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ static void ata_pio_sector(struct ata_queued_cmd *qc)
> >> > do_write);
> >> > }
> >> >
> >> > - if (!do_write)
> >> > + if (!do_write&& !PageSlab(page))
> >> > flush_dcache_page(page);
> >>
> >> I would think that check belongs inside flush_dcache_page itself, rather
> >> than forcing every driver to include it..
> >
> >Sebastian (cc'ed) reported this as well for MIPS.
> Thx. The patch above looks what I've sent a while ago. Jeff was going to
> merge it afaik.
>
> >I think it makes sense for this check to be done in the
> >flush_dcache_page() function.
>
> Why should flush_dcache_page() not flush pages you tell it?
> From Documentation/cachetlb.txt:
> | NOTE: This routine need only be called for page cache pages
> | which can potentially ever be mapped into the address
> | space of a user process. So for example, VFS layer code
> | handling vfs symlinks in the page cache need not call
> | this interface at all.
>
> A page from slab or stack is not going to see the sky of user land and
> therefore it should not be fed into flush_dcache_page().
You are right :), so fixing the driver is the best approach.
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Catalin
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