Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:07:53 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/highmem: Align-down to page the address for
 kunmap_flush_on_unmap()
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 03:33:46PM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> If ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP is defined (PA-RISC case), __kunmap_local()
> calls kunmap_flush_on_unmap(). The latter currently flushes the wrong
> address (as confirmed by Matthew Wilcox and Helge Deller). Al Viro
> proposed to call kunmap_flush_on_unmap() on an aligned-down to page
> address in order to fix this issue. Consensus has been reached on this
> solution.
> 
> Therefore, if ARCH_HAS_FLUSH_ON_KUNMAP is defined, call
> kunmap_flush_on_unmap() on an aligned-down to page address computed with
> the PTR_ALIGN_DOWN() macro.

You missed a spot.  Sent the version I've had in my tree for a few days.