I am assuming then that in the above, your definition of "non-coherent"
does not include virtual coherency/aliasing issues, since the above
paragraph seems to imply that those issues are handled differently.
Applying the above formalisms to the MIPS processor in do_wp_page,
I still can't see why a cache wbinv would be done by the
flush_page_to_ram(old_page); And if I can not use the argument of
cache aliasing, I am at a complete loss to explain either of
flush_page_to_ram(new_page); and flush_cache_page(vma, address);
doing cache wbinv on the MIPS.
You do mention in the general case where the primitives need to be
invoked, except I still don't understand which processors can define
the primitives as no-ops (Intel) and which should do some real work
(like the MIPS seems to be doing). Is there some way to figure out
how a given processor/architecture needs to define these routines?
Thanks.
Kanoj
>
> For IPC shared memory some ports enforce an alignment. For other MMU
> activities, the update_mmu_cache method can do things like remap a
> page as non-cacheable in all user references if an alias has been
> created which is unavoidable. update_mmu_cache is sort of the "catch
> all" area for handling stuff like this, you could use it to work
> around the MIPS R4x00 "branch at end of page" hardware bug for example.
>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
>
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