Re: [PATCH] bounce: call flush_dcache_page after bounce_copy_vec

[Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Gary King <gking@nvidia.com> wrote:
> I have been seeing problems on Tegra 2 (ARMv7 SMP) systems with HIGHMEM
> enabled on 2.6.35 (plus some patches targetted at 2.6.36 to perform
> cache maintenance lazily), and the root cause appears to be that the
> mm bouncing code is calling flush_dcache_page before it copies the
> bounce buffer into the bio.
>
> The patch below reorders these two operations, and eliminates numerous
> arbitrary application crashes on my dev system.
>

We also experience the package building failure on OMAP4 SMP system
with HIGHMEM enabled
on 2.6.35. Thanks a lot for this fixing, we will try it later soon.

-Bryan

> Gary
>
> --
> From 678c9bca8d8a8f254f28af91e69fad3aa1be7593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gary King <gking@nvidia.com>
> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:37:12 -0700
> Subject: bounce: call flush_dcache_page after bounce_copy_vec
>
> the bounced page needs to be flushed after data is copied into it,
> to ensure that architecture implementations can synchronize
> instruction and data caches if necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gary King <gking@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  mm/bounce.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/bounce.c b/mm/bounce.c
> index 13b6dad..1481de6 100644
> --- a/mm/bounce.c
> +++ b/mm/bounce.c
> @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ static void copy_to_high_bio_irq(struct bio *to, struct bio *from)
>                 */
>                vfrom = page_address(fromvec->bv_page) + tovec->bv_offset;
>
> -               flush_dcache_page(tovec->bv_page);
>                bounce_copy_vec(tovec, vfrom);
> +               flush_dcache_page(tovec->bv_page);
>        }
>  }
>
> --
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>
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