2022-03-18 08:56:47

by Muchun Song

Subject: [PATCH v5 2/6] dax: fix cache flush on PMD-mapped pages

The flush_cache_page() only remove a PAGE_SIZE sized range from the cache.
However, it does not cover the full pages in a THP except a head page.
Replace it with flush_cache_range() to fix this issue. This is just a
documentation issue with the respect to properly documenting the expected
usage of cache flushing before modifying the pmd. However, in practice
this is not a problem due to the fact that DAX is not available on
architectures with virtually indexed caches per:

commit d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches")

Fixes: f729c8c9b24f ("dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
---
fs/dax.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
index 67a08a32fccb..a372304c9695 100644
--- a/fs/dax.c
+++ b/fs/dax.c
@@ -845,7 +845,8 @@ static void dax_entry_mkclean(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t index,
if (!pmd_dirty(*pmdp) && !pmd_write(*pmdp))
goto unlock_pmd;

- flush_cache_page(vma, address, pfn);
+ flush_cache_range(vma, address,
+ address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
pmd = pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pmdp);
pmd = pmd_wrprotect(pmd);
pmd = pmd_mkclean(pmd);
--
2.11.0

2022-03-22 08:45:22

by Christoph Hellwig

Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] dax: fix cache flush on PMD-mapped pages

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 03:45:25PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> The flush_cache_page() only remove a PAGE_SIZE sized range from the cache.
> However, it does not cover the full pages in a THP except a head page.
> Replace it with flush_cache_range() to fix this issue. This is just a
> documentation issue with the respect to properly documenting the expected
> usage of cache flushing before modifying the pmd. However, in practice
> this is not a problem due to the fact that DAX is not available on
> architectures with virtually indexed caches per:
>
> commit d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing caches")
>
> Fixes: f729c8c9b24f ("dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Looks good:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>