linux-kernel - Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

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Date:	Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:43:53 +0000
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, mdharm-kernel@...-eyed-alien.net,
	oliver@...kum.org, linux@....linux.org.uk, greg@...ah.com,
	x0082077@...com, sshtylyov@...mvista.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com, santosh.shilimkar@...com,
	pavel@....cz, tom.leiming@...il.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 03:47 +0000, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:29:54 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:05 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> >
> > > The viable solutions so far:
> > >
> > >      1. Implement a PIO mapping API similar to the DMA API which takes
> > >         care of the D-cache flushing. This means that PIO drivers would
> > >         need to be modified to use an API like pio_kmap()/pio_kunmap()
> > >         before writing to a page cache page.
> > >      2. Invert the meaning of PG_arch_1 to denote a clean page. This
> > >         means that by default newly allocated page cache pages are
> > >         considered dirty and even if there isn't a call to
> > >         flush_dcache_page(), update_mmu_cache() would flush the D-cache.
> > >         This is the PowerPC approach.
> >
> > I don't see the point of a "PIO" API. I would thus vote for 2 :-) Note
> 
> Yeah, as powerpc and ia64 do, arm can flush D cache and invalidate I
> cache when inserting a executable page to pte, IIUC. No need for the
> new API for I/D consistency.

I can see that IA-64 uses the PG_arch_1 bit to mark a clean page rather
than dirty (as we did for ARM). The Documentation/cachetlb.txt needs
updating.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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