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2007-01-08[ARM] Resolve fuse and direct-IO failures due to missing cache flushesRussell King
fuse does not work on ARM due to cache incoherency issues - fuse wants to use get_user_pages() to copy data from the current process into kernel space. However, since this accesses userspace via the kernel mapping, the kernel mapping can be out of date wrt data written to userspace. This can lead to unpredictable behaviour (in the case of fuse) or data corruption for direct-IO. This resolves debian bug #402876 Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-13[ARM] Unuse another Linux PTE bitRussell King
L_PTE_ASID is not really required to be stored in every PTE, since we can identify it via the address passed to set_pte_at(). So, create set_pte_ext() which takes the address of the PTE to set, the Linux PTE value, and the additional CPU PTE bits which aren't encoded in the Linux PTE value. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-25[ARM] 3853/1: Fix flush_ptrace_access() thinko for nonaliasing VIPT cache caseGeorge G. Davis
Fix thinko in the flush_ptrace_access() "if (expr)" for the ARM VIPT non-aliasing cache case. We only need to flush cache when VM_EXEC is set in vma->vm_flags but "if (expr) always evaluates to true on UP systems for the ARM VIPT non-aliasing cache case. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-20[ARM] Cleanup arch/arm/mm a littleRussell King
Move top_pmd into arch/arm/mm/mm.h - nothing outside arch/arm/mm references it. Move the repeated definition of TOP_PTE into mm/mm.h, as well as a few function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-02[ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing ↵George G. Davis
Harvard caches Patch from George G. Davis Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page() while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far too heavy on non-v6 CPUs". NOTES: 1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page(). 2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page". 3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before memcpy(). 4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page() case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access() function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-10[ARM] 3356/1: Workaround for the ARM1136 I-cache invalidation problemCatalin Marinas
Patch from Catalin Marinas ARM1136 erratum 371025 (category 2) specifies that, under rare conditions, an invalidate I-cache by MVA (line or range) operation can fail to invalidate a cache line. The recommended workaround is to either invalidate the entire I-cache or invalidate the range by set/way rather than MVA. Note that for a 16K cache size, invalidating a 4K page by set/way is equivalent to invalidating the entire I-cache. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-30[ARM SMP] Disable lazy flush_dcache_page for SMPRussell King
Lazy flush_dcache_page() causes userspace instability on SMP platforms, so disable it for now. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-30[ARM] 2939/1: Fix compilation error in arch/arm/mm/flush.cCatalin Marinas
Patch from Catalin Marinas When CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT is defined, the flush_pfn_alias() function is implicitely declared and it later conflicts with its actual definition. This patch moves the function definition to the beginning of the file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-08[ARM] Fix ARMv6 VIPT cache >= 32KRussell King
This adds the necessary changes to ensure that we flush the caches correctly with aliasing VIPT caches. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20[PATCH] ARM: Fix delayed dcache flush for ARMv6 non-aliasing cachesRussell King
flush_dcache_page() did nothing for these caches, but since they suffer from I/D cache coherency issues, we need to ensure that data is written back to RAM. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10[PATCH] ARM: Add V6 aliasing cache flushRussell King
Add cache flushing support for aliased V6 caches to flush_dcache_page. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!