From 929f97276bcf7f4a95272ed08a85339b98ba210d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dean Nelson Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:03:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory Modify the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to utilize a bitmap scheme instead of the buddy scheme. The purpose of this change is to eliminate the touching of the actual memory being allocated. Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached allocator (arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required. Both Andrey Volkov and Jes Sorenson have expressed a desire that the gen_pool allocator not write to the memory being managed. See the following: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113518602713125&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113533568827916&w=2 Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Cc: Andrey Volkov Acked-by: Jes Sorensen Cc: "Luck, Tony" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/cache.c | 15 +++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2') diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/cache.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/cache.c index bc3cfa17cd0..2862cb33026 100644 --- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/cache.c +++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/sn2/cache.c @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive * for more details. * - * Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved. + * Copyright (C) 2001-2003, 2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved. * */ #include #include +#include /** * sn_flush_all_caches - flush a range of address from all caches (incl. L4) @@ -17,18 +18,24 @@ * Flush a range of addresses from all caches including L4. * All addresses fully or partially contained within * @flush_addr to @flush_addr + @bytes are flushed - * from the all caches. + * from all caches. */ void sn_flush_all_caches(long flush_addr, long bytes) { - flush_icache_range(flush_addr, flush_addr+bytes); + unsigned long addr = flush_addr; + + /* SHub1 requires a cached address */ + if (is_shub1() && (addr & RGN_BITS) == RGN_BASE(RGN_UNCACHED)) + addr = (addr - RGN_BASE(RGN_UNCACHED)) + RGN_BASE(RGN_KERNEL); + + flush_icache_range(addr, addr + bytes); /* * The last call may have returned before the caches * were actually flushed, so we call it again to make * sure. */ - flush_icache_range(flush_addr, flush_addr+bytes); + flush_icache_range(addr, addr + bytes); mb(); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(sn_flush_all_caches); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2