From: Russell King <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:46:04 +0000
> iirc, flush_anon_page() was introduced to fix non-working fuse on parisc,
> which occurs because fuse wants to use get_user_pages() to read data from
> the current processes memory space.
>
> get_user_pages() contains a call to flush_dcache_page(), whose behaviour
> is defined for shared mappings. Anonymous pages are unspecified. It
> appears that flush_anon_page() was introduced to correct this oversight.
Sparc64 flushes anonymous pages too when flush_dcache_page() is
called on such pages. It only tries to "defer" flushes for
pages which have a non-NULL page_mapping(). For NULL page_mapping()
we just flush immediately.
This works on sparc64, as sort of hinted by Linus, because we can
flush by physical page on sparc64. I guess the lack of ability to
do that is why PARISC and ARM don't do that too.
For the ptrace() cases we created the copy_{to,from}_user_page()
interfaces. So that when you access data inside of pages obtained via
a get_user_pages() call, you are supposed to use those two interfaces
so that everything works out right.
Therefore, FUSE probably could have been fixed by judicious use
of copy_{to,from}_user_page() calls instead of adding this new
ad-hoc flush_anon_page() thing.
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