On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:14 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > OK. So,the new behaviour in 2.6.37 is that we're writing to a series of > pages via the usual kmap_atomic()/kunmap_atomic() and kmap()/kunmap() > interfaces, but we can end up reading them via a virtual address range > that gets set up via vm_map_ram() (that range gets set up before the > write occurs). > > Do we perhaps need an invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() before we can read > the data on ARM in this kind of scenario? IOW: Does something like the following patch fix the problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> NFS: Ensure we clean the TLB cache in nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array After calling nfs_readdir_xdr_filler(), we need a call to invalidate_kernel_vmap_range() before we can proceed to read the data back through the virtual address range. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 996dd89..4640470 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -587,6 +587,9 @@ int nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array(nfs_readdir_descriptor_t *desc, struct page *page, if (status < 0) break; pglen = status; + + invalidate_kernel_vmap_range(pages_ptr, pglen); + status = nfs_readdir_page_filler(desc, &entry, pages_ptr, page, pglen); if (status < 0) { if (status == -ENOSPC) -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx www.netapp.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html