parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4)

This is the first patch in a series of 4, with which the page cache flushing of
parisc will gets fixed and enhanced. This even fixes the nasty "minifail" bug
(http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases?highlight=%28minifail%29) which
prevented parisc to stay an official debian port.  Basically the flush in
copy_user_page together with the TLB patch from commit
7139bc1579901b53db7e898789e916ee2fb52d78 is what fixes the minifail bug.

This patch still uses the TMPALIAS approach.  The new copy_user_page
implementation calls flush_dcache_page_asm to flush the user dcache page
(crucial for minifail fix) via a kernel TMPALIAS mapping.  After that, it just
copies the page using the kernel mapping.  It does a final flush if needed.
Generally it is hard to avoid doing some cache flushes using the kernel mapping
(e.g., copy_to_user_page and copy_from_user_page).

This patch depends on a subsequent change to pacache.S implementing
clear_page_asm and copy_page_asm.  These are optimized routines to clear and
copy a page.  The calls in clear_user_page and copy_user_page could be replaced
by calls to memset and memcpy, respectively.  I tested prefetch optimizations
in clear_page_asm and copy_page_asm but didn't see any significant performance
improvement on rp3440.  I'm not sure if these are routines are significantly
faster than memset and/or memcpy, but they are there for further performance
evaluation.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
index b89a85a..d9cbb4b 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/cache.c
@@ -329,17 +329,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_data_cache_local);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_icache_range_asm);
 
-void clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-	/* This function is implemented in assembly in pacache.S */
-	extern void __clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr);
-
-	purge_tlb_start(flags);
-	__clear_user_page_asm(page, vaddr);
-	purge_tlb_end(flags);
-}
-
 #define FLUSH_THRESHOLD 0x80000 /* 0.5MB */
 int parisc_cache_flush_threshold __read_mostly = FLUSH_THRESHOLD;
 
@@ -373,20 +362,9 @@ void __init parisc_setup_cache_timing(void)
 	printk(KERN_INFO "Setting cache flush threshold to %x (%d CPUs online)\n", parisc_cache_flush_threshold, num_online_cpus());
 }
 
-extern void purge_kernel_dcache_page(unsigned long);
-extern void clear_user_page_asm(void *page, unsigned long vaddr);
-
-void clear_user_page(void *page, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *pg)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	purge_kernel_dcache_page((unsigned long)page);
-	purge_tlb_start(flags);
-	pdtlb_kernel(page);
-	purge_tlb_end(flags);
-	clear_user_page_asm(page, vaddr);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_page);
+extern void purge_kernel_dcache_page_asm(unsigned long);
+extern void clear_user_page_asm(void *, unsigned long);
+extern void copy_user_page_asm(void *, void *, unsigned long);
 
 void flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr(void *addr)
 {
@@ -399,11 +377,26 @@ void flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr(void *addr)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_kernel_dcache_page_addr);
 
+void clear_user_page(void *vto, unsigned long vaddr, struct page *page)
+{
+	clear_page_asm(vto);
+	if (!parisc_requires_coherency())
+		flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm(vto);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_user_page);
+
 void copy_user_page(void *vto, void *vfrom, unsigned long vaddr,
-		    struct page *pg)
+	struct page *pg)
 {
-	/* no coherency needed (all in kmap/kunmap) */
-	copy_user_page_asm(vto, vfrom);
+	/* Copy using kernel mapping.  No coherency is needed
+	   (all in kmap/kunmap) on machines that don't support
+	   non-equivalent aliasing.  However, the `from' page
+	   needs to be flushed before it can be accessed through
+	   the kernel mapping. */
+	preempt_disable();
+	flush_dcache_page_asm(__pa(vfrom), vaddr);
+	preempt_enable();
+	copy_page_asm(vto, vfrom);
 	if (!parisc_requires_coherency())
 		flush_kernel_dcache_page_asm(vto);
 }