[PATCH v3 0/4] sparc64: D-cache alias flushing fixes

From: Imre Kaloz

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 19:35:17 EST


These fix D-cache alias flushing on sparc64 CPUs with a virtually
indexed L1 D-cache (Spitfire and Cheetah).

1/4 makes xcall_deliver() bail out before it touches the trap block
when there is no other CPU to call, so an early cross call, before
init_IRQ() sets up the mondo blocks, can't end up writing to physical
address 0.

2/4 flushes only the page a PTE maps instead of its whole folio, which
removes about a million redundant page flushes from a colour-changing
mremap() of a large folio (7.3 s on a Sun Fire V240).

3/4 implements flush_cache_vmap() and flush_cache_vunmap(), which have
been no-ops. Stale vmalloc lines corrupt BPF programs and module data
on UltraSPARC III.

4/4 passes the number of PTEs to move_pte(), as Andreas suggested. It
touches mm/mremap.c and include/linux/pgtable.h, so it needs an ack
from the mm folks.

1-3 don't depend on 4 and can go in on their own. 2 and 3 are for
stable (3 needs 2), 1 and 4 aren't. The series is on top of the sparc
for-next branch.

Changes in v3:
- new 1/4 and 4/4, following Andreas' review
- 2/4: reworded the message and the move_pte() comment, marked the
UP #endif
- 3/4: reworded the message, dropped the Suggested-by (I have no
email address for nsafran1217, the Link credits them), noted the
stable dependency on 2/4
- picked up Stian's and Adrian's Tested-by tags

v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260928132102.1707-1-kaloz@xxxxxxxxxx

Imre Kaloz (4):
sparc64: skip the trap block in xcall_deliver() when there is no
target
sparc64: flush only the aliased page, not its whole folio
sparc64: flush vmalloc ranges from the D-cache on map and unmap
mm: pass the number of PTEs to move_pte()

arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h | 9 ++--
arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 14 ++++--
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 51 +++++++++++++++-----
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/sparc/mm/tlb.c | 2 +-
arch/sparc/mm/ultra.S | 25 ++++++++++
include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +-
mm/mremap.c | 2 +-
8 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)


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