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diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 53245c429f7..debf6813934 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -179,10 +179,21 @@ Here are the routines, one by one: lines associated with 'mm'. This interface is used to handle whole address space - page table operations such as what happens during - fork, exit, and exec. + page table operations such as what happens during exit and exec. + +2) void flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) + + This interface flushes an entire user address space from + the caches. That is, after running, there will be no cache + lines associated with 'mm'. + + This interface is used to handle whole address space + page table operations such as what happens during fork. + + This option is separate from flush_cache_mm to allow some + optimizations for VIPT caches. -2) void flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, +3) void flush_cache_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long start, unsigned long end) Here we are flushing a specific range of (user) virtual @@ -199,7 +210,7 @@ Here are the routines, one by one: call flush_cache_page (see below) for each entry which may be modified. -3) void flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn) +4) void flush_cache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, unsigned long pfn) This time we need to remove a PAGE_SIZE sized range from the cache. The 'vma' is the backing structure used by @@ -220,7 +231,7 @@ Here are the routines, one by one: This is used primarily during fault processing. -4) void flush_cache_kmaps(void) +5) void flush_cache_kmaps(void) This routine need only be implemented if the platform utilizes highmem. It will be called right before all of the kmaps @@ -232,7 +243,7 @@ Here are the routines, one by one: This routing should be implemented in asm/highmem.h -5) void flush_cache_vmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) +6) void flush_cache_vmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) void flush_cache_vunmap(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) Here in these two interfaces we are flushing a specific range @@ -362,14 +373,15 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. likely that you will need to flush the instruction cache for copy_to_user_page(). - void flush_anon_page(struct page *page, unsigned long vmaddr) + void flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, + unsigned long vmaddr) When the kernel needs to access the contents of an anonymous page, it calls this function (currently only get_user_pages()). Note: flush_dcache_page() deliberately doesn't work for an anonymous page. The default implementation is a nop (and should remain so for all coherent architectures). For incoherent architectures, it should flush - the cache of the page at vmaddr in the current user process. + the cache of the page at vmaddr. void flush_kernel_dcache_page(struct page *page) When the kernel needs to modify a user page is has obtained |