Re: USB mass storage and ARM cache coherency

[Alan Stern]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> For mmap'ed pages (and present in the page cache), is it guaranteed that
> the HCD driver won't write to it once it has been mapped into user
> space? If that's the case, it may solve the problem by just reversing
> the meaning of PG_arch_1 on ARM and assume that a newly allocated page
> has dirty D-cache by default.

Nothing is guaranteed.  The HCD will write to wherever it is asked.  If 
a driver does input to an mmap'ed page, the HCD won't even know that 
the page is mmap'ed.

Alan Stern

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