-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Dickins [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 10:20 PM
To: Nick Piggin
Cc: [email protected]; Mike Stroyan; Andrew Morton; Luck, Tony;
[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] ia64: race flushing icache in do_no_page path
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> OIC, you need a virtual address to evict the icache, so you can't
> flush at flush_dcache time? Or does ia64 have an instruction to flush
> the whole icache? (it would be worth testing, to see how much
> performance suffers).
IIRC, there is a PAL call to flush the whole cache (but that is quite a
heavy call). Though you really don't need to be doing this.
>I'm puzzled by that remark: the ia64 flush_icache_range always has a
>virtual address, it uses the kernel virtual address; it takes
>no interest in whether there's a user virtual address.
Caches on Itanium are physical. So, it doesn't matter what virtual address
you use to flush a cache line, cache line containing specific physical
memory will be flushed. For the cases where you have virtual caches,
update_mmu_cache is the API to use.
-rohit
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