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| author | Russell King <rmk@dyn-67.arm.linux.org.uk> | 2006-12-30 22:24:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2007-01-08 19:49:54 +0000 |
| commit | a6f36be32622730710b2fadacb6e2649defa4371 (patch) | |
| tree | 09d0f3ebe839b76373ee5ed4674fe305ad9ac256 | |
| parent | e47c222b22cd53c317a5573e1dc5f9e0cbd46380 (diff) | |
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[ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page()
Since get_user_pages() may be used with processes other than the
current process and calls flush_anon_page(), flush_anon_page() has to
cope in some way with non-current processes.
It may not be appropriate, or even desirable to flush a region of
virtual memory cache in the current process when that is different to
the process that we want the flush to occur for.
Therefore, pass the vma into flush_anon_page() so that the architecture
can work out whether the 'vmaddr' is for the current process or not.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/highmem.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 2 |
4 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 73e794f0ff0..debf6813934 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -373,14 +373,15 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. likely that you will need to flush the instruction cache for copy_to_user_page(). - void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) + void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, + unsigned long vmaddr) When the kernel needs to access the contents of an anonymous page, it calls this function (currently only get_user_pages()). Note: flush_dcache_page() deliberately doesn't work for an anonymous page. The default implementation is a nop (and should remain so for all coherent architectures). For incoherent architectures, it should flush - the cache of the page at vmaddr in the current user process. + the cache of the page at vmaddr. void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page) When the kernel needs to modify a user page is has obtained diff --git a/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h b/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h index aedb0512cb0..a799dd8ef39 100644 --- a/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h +++ b/include/asm-parisc/cacheflush.h @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long vmaddr, unsigned long } static inline void -flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) +flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) { if (PageAnon(page)) flush_user_dcache_page(vmaddr); diff --git a/include/linux/highmem.h b/include/linux/highmem.h index ca9a602cffd..645d440807c 100644 --- a/include/linux/highmem.h +++ b/include/linux/highmem.h @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ #include <asm/cacheflush.h> #ifndef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ANON_PAGE -static inline void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) +static inline void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) { } #endif diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 563792f4f68..af227d26e10 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, if (pages) { pages[i] = page; - flush_anon_page(page, start); + flush_anon_page(vma, page, start); flush_dcache_page(page); } if (vmas) |