On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 03:45:25PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> The flush_cache_page() only remove a PAGE_SIZE sized range from the cache.
> However, it does not cover the full pages in a THP except a head page.
> Replace it with flush_cache_range() to fix this issue. This is just a
> documentation issue with the respect to properly documenting the expected
> usage of cache flushing before modifying the pmd. However, in practice
> this is not a problem due to the fact that DAX is not available on
> architectures with virtually indexed caches per:
>
> commit d92576f1167c ("dax: does not work correctly with virtual aliasing
> caches")
>
> Fixes: f729c8c9b24f ("dax: wrprotect pmd_t in dax_mapping_entry_mkclean")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
