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Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2023 05:56:01 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] fs/sysv: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:07:48AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 04:54:51AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > > Sure, but... there's also this:
> > > 
> > > static inline void __kunmap_local(const void *addr)
> > > {
> > > #ifdef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP
> > >         kunmap_flush_on_unmap(addr);
> > > #endif
> > > }
> > > 
> > > Are you sure that the guts of that thing will be happy with address that is not
> > > page-aligned?  I've looked there at some point, got scared of parisc (IIRC)
> > > MMU details and decided not to rely upon that...
> > 
> > Ugh, PA-RISC (the only implementor) definitely will flush the wrong
> > addresses.  I think we should do this, as having bugs that only manifest
> > on one not-well-tested architecture seems Bad.
> > 
> >  static inline void __kunmap_local(const void *addr)
> >  {
> >  #ifdef ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP
> > -       kunmap_flush_on_unmap(addr);
> > +       kunmap_flush_on_unmap(PAGE_ALIGN_DOWN(addr));
> >  #endif
> >  }
> 
> PTR_ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PAGE_SIZE), perhaps?

	Anyway, that's a question to parisc folks; I _think_ pdtlb
quietly ignores the lower bits of address, so that part seems
to be safe, but I wouldn't bet upon that.  And when I got to
flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm I gave up - it's been a long time
since I've dealt with parisc assembler.