From 03beb07664d768db97bf454ae5c9581cd4737bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Bottomley Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:36:57 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add API for flushing Anon pages Currently, get_user_pages() returns fully coherent pages to the kernel for anything other than anonymous pages. This is a problem for things like fuse and the SCSI generic ioctl SG_IO which can potentially wish to do DMA to anonymous pages passed in by users. The fix is to add a new memory management API: flush_anon_page() which is used in get_user_pages() to make anonymous pages coherent. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley Cc: Russell King Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm/memory.c') diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index e347e106ca3..67686048f09 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1071,6 +1071,8 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, } if (pages) { pages[i] = page; + + flush_anon_page(page, start); flush_dcache_page(page); } if (vmas) -- cgit v1.2.3