linux-kernel - Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

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Date:	Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:15:04 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, arjan@...radead.org, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

> > > I'm willing to do that - and I guess this means we can probably do this
> > > instead of walking the list of VMAs for the shared mapping, thereby
> > > hitting both anonymous and shared mappings with the same code?
> > 
> > But for the get_user_pages() case there's no point, is there?  The VMA
> > and the virtual address is already available, so trying to find it
> > again through RMAP doesn't much make sense.
> > 
> > Users of get_user_pages() don't care about any other mappings (maybe
> > ptrace does, I don't know) only about one single user mapping and one
> > kernel mapping.
> > 
> > So using flush_dcache_page() there is an overkill, trying to teach it
> > about anonymous pages is not the real solution, flush_dcache_page()
> > was never meant to be used on anything but file mapped pages.
> 
> It's not actually.  For flush_anon_page() we currently have to flush the
> user mapping and the kernel mapping.  For flush_dcache_page(), it's
> exactly the same - we have to flush the kernel mapping and the user
> mapping.

I was never advocating flush_anon_page().  I was suggesting a _new_
cache operation:

   flush_kernel_user_page(page, vma, virt_addr)

which flushes the kernel mapping and the given user mapping.  Just
like flush_dcache_page() but without needing to find the user
mapping(s).

However the cache flushing in kmap/kunmap idea might be cleaner and
better.

Miklos
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