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mm: remove ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_FOLIO
Current best practice is to reuse the name of the function as a define to indicate that the function is implemented by the architecture. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230802151406.3735276-6-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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If D-cache aliasing is not an issue, these two routines may
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simply call memcpy/memset directly and do nothing more.
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``void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)``
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``void flush_dcache_folio(struct folio *folio)``
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This routines must be called when:
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@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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and / or in high memory
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b) the kernel is about to read from a page cache page and user space
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shared/writable mappings of this page potentially exist. Note
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that {get,pin}_user_pages{_fast} already call flush_dcache_page
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that {get,pin}_user_pages{_fast} already call flush_dcache_folio
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on any page found in the user address space and thus driver
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code rarely needs to take this into account.
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@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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The phrase "kernel writes to a page cache page" means, specifically,
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that the kernel executes store instructions that dirty data in that
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page at the page->virtual mapping of that page. It is important to
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page at the kernel virtual mapping of that page. It is important to
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flush here to handle D-cache aliasing, to make sure these kernel stores
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are visible to user space mappings of that page.
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@ -306,18 +306,18 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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If D-cache aliasing is not an issue, this routine may simply be defined
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as a nop on that architecture.
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There is a bit set aside in page->flags (PG_arch_1) as "architecture
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There is a bit set aside in folio->flags (PG_arch_1) as "architecture
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private". The kernel guarantees that, for pagecache pages, it will
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clear this bit when such a page first enters the pagecache.
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This allows these interfaces to be implemented much more
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efficiently. It allows one to "defer" (perhaps indefinitely) the
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actual flush if there are currently no user processes mapping this
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page. See sparc64's flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache_range
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page. See sparc64's flush_dcache_folio and update_mmu_cache_range
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implementations for an example of how to go about doing this.
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The idea is, first at flush_dcache_page() time, if
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page_file_mapping() returns a mapping, and mapping_mapped on that
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The idea is, first at flush_dcache_folio() time, if
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folio_flush_mapping() returns a mapping, and mapping_mapped() on that
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mapping returns %false, just mark the architecture private page
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flag bit. Later, in update_mmu_cache_range(), a check is made
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of this flag bit, and if set the flush is done and the flag bit
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@ -331,12 +331,6 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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dirty. Again, see sparc64 for examples of how
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to deal with this.
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``void flush_dcache_folio(struct folio *folio)``
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This function is called under the same circumstances as
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flush_dcache_page(). It allows the architecture to
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optimise for flushing the entire folio of pages instead
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of flushing one page at a time.
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``void copy_to_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
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unsigned long user_vaddr, void *dst, void *src, int len)``
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``void copy_from_user_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
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@ -357,7 +351,7 @@ maps this page at its virtual address.
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When the kernel needs to access the contents of an anonymous
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page, it calls this function (currently only
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get_user_pages()). Note: flush_dcache_page() deliberately
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get_user_pages()). Note: flush_dcache_folio() deliberately
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doesn't work for an anonymous page. The default
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implementation is a nop (and should remain so for all coherent
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architectures). For incoherent architectures, it should flush
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``void flush_icache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page)``
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All the functionality of flush_icache_page can be implemented in
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flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache_range. In the future, the hope
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flush_dcache_folio and update_mmu_cache_range. In the future, the hope
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is to remove this interface completely.
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The final category of APIs is for I/O to deliberately aliased address
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struct folio;
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#if ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE
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#ifndef ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_FOLIO
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#ifndef flush_dcache_folio
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void flush_dcache_folio(struct folio *folio);
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#endif
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#else
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static inline void flush_dcache_folio(struct folio *folio)
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{
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}
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#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_FOLIO 0
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#define flush_dcache_folio flush_dcache_folio
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#endif /* ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE */
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#endif /* _LINUX_CACHEFLUSH_H */
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