linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and XTENSA

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Message-ID: <20130910164404.GA1690@roeck-us.net>
Date:	Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:44:04 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	driverdevel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Peng Tao <tao.peng@....com>, Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Disable lustre file system for MIPS, SH, and
 XTENSA

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:49:05AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> >> [*] Why does m68k allmodconfig still succeed on kissb???
> >>     It does fail for me, as m68k's copy_from_user_page() calls
> >>     flush_icache_user_range(), which is not exported.
> >>
> > I don't see a build failure in m68k:allmodconfig either.
> >
> > flush_icache_user_range() is called from copy_to_user_page(), not from
> > copy_from_user_page(). copy_from_user_page() calls flush_cache_page()
> > which calls __flush_cache_030(). The first is inline, the second is
> > assembler, so I would expect it to work. Which doesn't answer
> > the question why it fails for you.
> 
> Sorry, I meant copy_to_user_page().
> 
> I tried with 2.6.3 from crosstool, and it succeeded, too.
> 
Do such old versions of gcc still exist ? Just kidding :)

> Turns out cfs_access_process_vm() is called with write=0 only.
> Gcc 2.6.3 optimizes away the write != 0 branch (which calls copy_to_user_page()
> and thus flush_icache_user_range()), while gcc 4.1.2 doesn't do that.
> Mystery solved.
> 
Still bad. Guess it would still fail with 4.6.3 if optimization is turned off.

Guenter

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
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> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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> 
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