Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030969Ab0B1ATM (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:19:12 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:38737 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030952Ab0B1ATL (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:19:11 -0500 Subject: Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Catalin Marinas , Matthew Dharm , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, "Mankad,Maulik Ojas" , Sergei Shtylyov , Ming Lei , Sebastian Siewior , Oliver Neukum , linux-kernel , "Shilimkar,Santosh" , Pavel Machek , Greg KH , linux-arm-kernel , James Bottomley In-Reply-To: <20100226210030.GC23933@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1266979632.23523.1668.camel@pasglop> <1267201521.14703.50.camel@e102109-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20100226210030.GC23933@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:14:32 +1100 Message-ID: <1267316072.23523.1842.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1189 Lines: 27 On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 21:00 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:25:21PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > For mmap'ed pages (and present in the page cache), is it guaranteed that > > the HCD driver won't write to it once it has been mapped into user > > space? If that's the case, it may solve the problem by just reversing > > the meaning of PG_arch_1 on ARM and assume that a newly allocated page > > has dirty D-cache by default. > > I guess we could also set PG_arch_1 in the DMA API as well, to avoid the > unnecessary D cache flushing when clean pages get mapped into userspace. That's an interesting thought for us too. When doing I$/D$ coherency, we have to fist flush the D$ and then invalidate the I$. If we could keep track of D$ and I$ separately, we could avoid the first step in many cases, including the DMA API trick you mentioned. I wonder if it's time to get a PG_arch_2 :-) Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/