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9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Russell King
1b2e2b73b4 [ARM] Cleanup arch/arm/mm a little
Move top_pmd into arch/arm/mm/mm.h - nothing outside arch/arm/mm
references it.

Move the repeated definition of TOP_PTE into mm/mm.h, as well as
a few function prototypes.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-20 14:58:35 +01:00
George G. Davis
a188ad2bc7 [ARM] 3762/1: Fix ptrace cache coherency bug for ARM1136 VIPT nonaliasing Harvard caches
Patch from George G. Davis

Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when
using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page()
while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far
too heavy on non-v6 CPUs".

NOTES:

1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page().
2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page".
3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache
   coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page".  However
   flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range
   for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT
   non-aliasing case.  So memory is consistent between kernel and user
   space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this
   range.  IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before
   memcpy().
4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush
   the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and
   invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable.  We don't
   need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page()
   case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same
   process above if we access "page" again.  The flush_ptrace_access()
   function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle
   cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-02 18:43:20 +01:00
Catalin Marinas
141fa40cff [ARM] 3356/1: Workaround for the ARM1136 I-cache invalidation problem
Patch from Catalin Marinas

ARM1136 erratum 371025 (category 2) specifies that, under rare
conditions, an invalidate I-cache by MVA (line or range) operation can
fail to invalidate a cache line. The recommended workaround is to
either invalidate the entire I-cache or invalidate the range by
set/way rather than MVA.

Note that for a 16K cache size, invalidating a 4K page by set/way is
equivalent to invalidating the entire I-cache.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-10 22:26:47 +00:00
Russell King
df2f5e721e [ARM SMP] Disable lazy flush_dcache_page for SMP
Lazy flush_dcache_page() causes userspace instability on SMP
platforms, so disable it for now.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-30 16:02:54 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
481467d6fa [ARM] 2939/1: Fix compilation error in arch/arm/mm/flush.c
Patch from Catalin Marinas

When CONFIG_CPU_CACHE_VIPT is defined, the flush_pfn_alias() function is
implicitely declared and it later conflicts with its actual definition.
This patch moves the function definition to the beginning of the file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-30 16:07:04 +01:00
Russell King
d7b6b35894 [ARM] Fix ARMv6 VIPT cache >= 32K
This adds the necessary changes to ensure that we flush the
caches correctly with aliasing VIPT caches.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-08 15:32:23 +01:00
Russell King
8830f04a09 [PATCH] ARM: Fix delayed dcache flush for ARMv6 non-aliasing caches
flush_dcache_page() did nothing for these caches, but since they
suffer from I/D cache coherency issues, we need to ensure that data
is written back to RAM.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20 09:51:03 +01:00
Russell King
8d802d28c2 [PATCH] ARM: Add V6 aliasing cache flush
Add cache flushing support for aliased V6 caches to
flush_dcache_page.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 17:31:43 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00