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From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:15:18 -0800
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Subject: Re: DAX filesystem support on ARMv8
To:     Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xilinx.com>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:12 PM Bharat Kumar Gogada <bharatku@xilinx.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As per Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt
>
> The DAX code does not work correctly on architectures which have virtually
> mapped caches such as ARM, MIPS and SPARC.
>
> Can anyone please shed light on dax filesystem issue w.r.t ARM architecture ?

The concern is VIVT caches since the kernel will want to flush pmem
addresses with different virtual addresses than what userspace is
using. As far as I know, ARMv8 has VIPT caches, so should not have an
issue. Willy initially wrote those restrictions, but I am assuming
that the concern was managing the caches in the presence of virtual
aliases.