Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] mm: rmap: fix cache flush on THP pages

2022-03-09 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 12:29 AM 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. At least, no > problems were found

[PATCH v4 1/6] mm: rmap: fix cache flush on THP pages

2022-03-02 Thread Muchun Song
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. At least, no problems were found due to this. Maybe because the architectures that have virtual