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

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed Mar 09 2022 - 19:02:11 EST


On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 12:29 AM Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 due to this. Maybe because the architectures that
> have virtual indexed caches is less.
>
> Fixes: f27176cfc363 ("mm: convert page_mkclean_one() to use page_vma_mapped_walk()")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>