Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware

[Joshua Kinard]

On 08/25/2014 13:16, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 05:11:37AM +0400, Max Filippov wrote:
> 
>> this series adds mapping color control to the generic kmap code, allowing
>> architectures with aliasing VIPT cache to use high memory. There's also
>> use example of this new interface by xtensa.
> 
> I haven't actually ported this to MIPS but it certainly appears to be
> the right framework to get highmem aliases handled on MIPS, too.
> 
> Though I still consider increasing PAGE_SIZE to 16k the preferable
> solution because it will entirly do away with cache aliases.

Won't setting PAGE_SIZE to 16k break some existing userlands (o32)?  I use a
4k PAGE_SIZE because the last few times I've tried 16k or 64k, init won't
load (SIGSEGVs or such, which panicks the kernel).

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