Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] mm: rmap: fix cache flush on THP pages

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On Wed 02-02-22 22:33:02, 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. At least, no
> problems were found due to this. Maybe because the architectures that
> have virtual indexed caches is less.
> 
> Fixes: f27176cfc363 ("mm: convert page_mkclean_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

								Honza

> ---
>  mm/rmap.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
> index b0fd9dc19eba..0ba12dc9fae3 100644
> --- a/mm/rmap.c
> +++ b/mm/rmap.c
> @@ -974,7 +974,8 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  			if (!pmd_dirty(*pmd) && !pmd_write(*pmd))
>  				continue;
>  
> -			flush_cache_page(vma, address, page_to_pfn(page));
> +			flush_cache_range(vma, address,
> +					  address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
>  			entry = pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pmd);
>  			entry = pmd_wrprotect(entry);
>  			entry = pmd_mkclean(entry);
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR



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