Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 7 authors, 2020-05-13

Re: [PATCH 31/31] module: move the set_fs hack for flush_icache_range to m68k

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Date: 2020-05-11 15:24:50
Also in: linux-alpha, linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-fsdevel, linux-m68k, linux-mips, linux-mm, linux-riscv, linux-sh, linux-um, lkml, sparclinux

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 5:11 PM Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:40:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
quoted
On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:57 AM Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
flush_icache_range generally operates on kernel addresses, but for some
reason m68k needed a set_fs override.  Move that into the m68k code
insted of keeping it in the module loader.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Btw, do you know what part of flush_icache_range relied on set_fs?
Do any of the m68k maintainers have an idea how to handle that in
a nicer way when we can split the implementations?
arch/m68k/mm/cache.c:virt_to_phys_slow()

All instructions that look up addresses in the page tables look at the
source/destination function codes (SFC/DFC) to know if they have to use
the supervisor or user page tables.
So the actual implementation is the same: set_fs() merely configures
SFC/DFC, to select the address space to use.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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