Add a flushing and clearing function for higher order pages.
These are provisional and will likely have to be optimized.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
---
fs/libfs.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/highmem.h | 12 ++++++++++++
include/linux/pagemap.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/filemap.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/include/linux/pagemap.h 2007-04-24 11:41:35.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/pagemap.h 2007-04-24 11:41:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -291,6 +291,31 @@ static inline void wait_on_page_writebac
extern void end_page_writeback(struct page *page);
+/* Support for clearing higher order pages */
+static inline void clear_mapping_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ int nr_pages = compound_pages(page);
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+ clear_highpage(page + i);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Support for flushing higher order pages.
+ *
+ * A bit stupid: On many platforms flushing the first page
+ * will flush any TLB starting there
+ */
+static inline void flush_mapping_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ int nr_pages = compound_pages(page);
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++)
+ flush_dcache_page(page + i);
+}
+
/*
* Fault a userspace page into pagetables. Return non-zero on a fault.
*
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/fs/libfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/fs/libfs.c 2007-04-24 11:41:37.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/fs/libfs.c 2007-04-24 11:41:51.000000000 -0700
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ int simple_rename(struct inode *old_dir,
int simple_readpage(struct file *file, struct page *page)
{
- clear_highpage(page);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
+ clear_mapping_page(page);
+ flush_mapping_page(page);
SetPageUptodate(page);
unlock_page(page);
return 0;
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/highmem.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/include/linux/highmem.h 2007-04-24 11:42:52.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/include/linux/highmem.h 2007-04-24 11:59:31.000000000 -0700
@@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ static inline void clear_highpage(struct
kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE
+/*
+ * Macro needed because flush_mapping_page definition is not available yet
+ * CONFIG_LARGE_BLOCKSIZE means !HIGHMEM
+ */
+#define memclear_highpage_flush(__page,__offset,__size) \
+{ \
+ memset(page_address(__page), (__offset), (__size)); \
+ flush_mapping_page(__page); \
+}
+#else
/*
* Same but also flushes aliased cache contents to RAM.
*/
@@ -95,6 +106,7 @@ static inline void memclear_highpage_flu
flush_dcache_page(page);
kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
}
+#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_COPY_USER_HIGHPAGE
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc7.orig/mm/filemap.c 2007-04-24 11:41:37.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc7/mm/filemap.c 2007-04-24 11:59:36.000000000 -0700
@@ -925,7 +925,7 @@ page_ok:
* before reading the page on the kernel side.
*/
if (mapping_writably_mapped(mapping))
- flush_dcache_page(page);
+ flush_mapping_page(page);
/*
* When (part of) the same page is read multiple times
@@ -2139,7 +2139,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb
else
copied = filemap_copy_from_user_iovec(page, offset,
cur_iov, iov_base, bytes);
- flush_dcache_page(page);
+ flush_mapping_page(page);
status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);
if (status == AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE) {
page_cache_release(page);
--
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