Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:23:18 +0000

> We do this on ARM - if page_mapping() is NULL, we flush the kernel
> alias unconditionally.  However, we have no view where the user
> mapping of that page is, which is where the problem is.  Cache lines
> remain allocated for the user mapping and data contained within is
> not visible via the kernel mapping.

You can walk the RMAP list.

> However, it's not only FUSE which is suffering - direct-IO also doesn't
> work.  If my analysis is correct, only _two_ users of get_user_pages()
> with the current process actually does the right thing and that's ptrace
> and ELF core dumping.  All other users are buggy.

I do not argue that these cases need work, in fact I am aware
of the direct-IO bit.
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