linux-kernel - Re: still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

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Date:	Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:35:17 +0000
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <m.kleine-budde@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: still nfs problems [Was: Linux 2.6.37-rc8]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:49 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 2011/1/5 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>:
> >>
> >> No, we really can't do that. Most of the time, the kmap() is the only
> >> way we access the page anyway, so flushing things would just be
> >> stupid. Why waste time and energy on doing something pointless?
> >
> > It's hardly pointless.  The kmap sets up an inequivalent alias in the
> > cache.
> 
> NO IT DOES NOT.

Well, it does ... but not in this case because the page is freshly
allocated (which I missed before) so it has no use cache colour yet.

James

> Stop arguing, when you are so wrong.
> 
> kmap() does not create any aliases. For low-memory, it just returns
> the physical address. No alias. And for high memory, there is no
> equivalent low memory address to alias _with_.
> 
> Now, when you actually mix multiple kmap's and you have a virtually
> based cache, then the kmap's obviously need to flush that particular
> page when switching between each other. But that has nothing to do
> with the actual page being kmap'ed, it's entirely an internal issue
> about the particular virtual memory area being re-used. And ARM (and
> any other virtually based CPU) already does that in __kunmap_atomic().
> 
> But notice the case of the low-mem. And understand that you are WRONG
> about the "inequivalent alias" thing.
> 
> So I repeat: this has absolutely *NOTHING* to do with kmap(). Stop blathering.
> 
> It's _purely_ an issue of vm_map_ram(). Nothing else.
> 
>                           Linus


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