linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 29/31] parisc: handle page-less SG entries

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Date:	Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:30:49 -0700
From:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 29/31] parisc: handle page-less SG entries

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:01:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> I'm assuming that anybody who wants to use the page-less
>> scatter-gather lists always does so on memory that isn't actually
>> virtually mapped at all, or only does so on sane architectures that
>> are cache coherent at a physical level, but I'd like that assumption
>> *documented* somewhere.
>
> It's temporarily mapped by kmap-like helpers.  That code isn't in
> this series. The most recent version of it is here:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm.git/commit/?h=pfn&id=de8237c99fdb4352be2193f3a7610e902b9bb2f0
>
> note that it's not doing the cache flushing it would have to do yet, but
> it's also only enabled for x86 at the moment.

For virtually tagged caches I assume we would temporarily map with
kmap_atomic_pfn_t(), similar to how drm_clflush_pages() implements
powerpc support.  However with DAX we could end up with multiple
virtual aliases for a page-less pfn.
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