From: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
To: davem@davemloft.net, andreas@gaisler.com
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linmag7@gmail.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/9] sparc32: do not flush a NULL address in flush_dcache_folio
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 23:34:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261108223516.1125534-4-linmag7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261108223516.1125534-1-linmag7@gmail.com>
sparc_flush_folio_to_ram() is sparc32's flush_dcache_folio() and takes the
address to flush from folio_address(). For a highmem folio that is NULL,
so it flushes virtual address 0, and 0 + PAGE_SIZE and so on for a multi-
page folio.
On HyperSPARC, hypersparc_flush_page_to_ram() probes with
ASI_M_FLUSH_PROBE, finds nothing mapped at 0 and returns, so nothing is
flushed at all.
Returning early would be wrong: flush_dcache_folio() is also the barrier
taken before reading a folio userspace may have dirtied, as in
filemap_read() when the folio is writably mapped. Fall back to the whole-
cache operation, which reaches user aliases at any colour and on SMP is
cross-called to every cpu.
Do that only when the folio is mapped by userspace; otherwise the only
other mapping is the kmap_local slot, which arch_kmap_local_pre_unmap()
writes back on teardown. Without that test block_write_end() makes every
buffered write discard 512 KB of VAC, which cost 106 s against 56 s on a
64 MB dd.
With the mapping live and a reader on another cpu, 150 of 150 reads
returned stale data before and 0 of 150 after, every first mismatch on a
32-byte boundary, the VAC line size.
The separate HyperSPARC mapped-folio fix completes the lowmem and PKMAP
colour handling. The highmem fallback can be expensive for GUP: each
mapped folio may require whole-cache maintenance on all CPUs.
Fixes: 665f64029454 ("sparc32: implement the new page table range API")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
---
arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c
index 7b53ee9f061f..9cf0065fc2d4 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_32.c
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@ void sparc_flush_folio_to_ram(struct folio *folio)
unsigned long vaddr = (unsigned long)folio_address(folio);
unsigned int i, nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ /*
+ * No kernel address to aim at. Only a user alias can be incoherent
+ * here; the kmap the kernel used is flushed when it is unmapped.
+ */
+ if (!vaddr) {
+ if (folio_mapped(folio))
+ flush_cache_all();
+ return;
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
__flush_page_to_ram(vaddr + i * PAGE_SIZE);
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-08 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-08 22:34 [PATCH 0/9] sparc32: repair cache hooks, mappings and TLB tracking Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 1/9] sparc32: inspect every PROM CPU cache geometry Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 2/9] sparc32: flush the source user alias in copy_user_highpage() Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` Magnus Lindholm [this message]
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 4/9] sparc32: flush the cache when a kmap_local mapping is installed Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 5/9] sparc32: preset modified and referenced bits in kmap PTEs Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 6/9] sparc32: colour-align private file mappings Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 7/9] sparc32: implement flush_anon_page Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 8/9] sparc32: retain mm_cpumask across TLB shootdowns Magnus Lindholm
2026-11-08 22:34 ` [PATCH 9/9] sparc32: enroll and order CPUs before switching address spaces Magnus Lindholm
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