The patch titled
Subject: mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-add-a-call-to-flush_cache_vmap-in-vmap_pfn.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-add-a-call-to-flush_cache_vmap-in-vmap_pfn.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: add a call to flush_cache_vmap() in vmap_pfn()
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2023 18:46:33 +0200
flush_cache_vmap() must be called after new vmalloc mappings are installed
in the page table in order to allow architectures to make sure the new
mapping is visible.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230809164633.1556126-1-alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 3e9a9e256b1e ("mm: add a vmap_pfn function")
Reported-by: Dylan Jhong <dylan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/ZMytNY2J8iyjbPPy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-add-a-call-to-flush_cache_vmap-in-vmap_pfn
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2979,6 +2979,10 @@ void *vmap_pfn(unsigned long *pfns, unsi
free_vm_area(area);
return NULL;
}
+
+ flush_cache_vmap((unsigned long)area->addr,
+ (unsigned long)area->addr + count * PAGE_SIZE);
+
return area->addr;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmap_pfn);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-add-a-call-to-flush_cache_vmap-in-vmap_pfn.patch
