On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 08:43 -0700, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:23:44PM -0400, Jon Fraser wrote:
>
> > For all you guys working on HIGMEM.
> >
> > I found a bug that was keeping HIGHMEM from working on mips 24k
> > processors starting at 2.6.26.
> >
> >
> > 2008-04-28 Chris Dearman [MIPS] Allow setting of the cache attribute at
> > run ...
> >
> > This commit introduces the variable _page_cachable_default, which
> > defaults to zero.
> >
> > arch/mips/mm/cache.c:
> > unsigned long _page_cachable_default;
> >
> > The variable is used to create the prototype PTE for __kmap_atomic in
> > arch/mips/mm/init.c:kmap_init.
> >
> > The variable is initialized in arch/mips/mm/c-r4k.c:coherency_setup.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the variable is used before it is initialized properly.
> > As a result, all kmap_atomic PTE have the cache coherency algorithm mode
> > set to 0.
> > Mode 0 is "cacheable, nocoherent, write-through, no write allocate".
> > This is not valid on my r24k and my not be on any r24k.
> >
> > The result is that writes to kmap_atomic pages get corrupted. This was
> > confirmed
> > using a jtag probe, examining uncached memory, the D cache itself, and
> > cached memory.
> >
> > I've changed the variable declaration to be:
> > unsigned long _page_cachable_default = _CACHE_CACHABLE_NONCOHERENT;
>
> There is no safe value of _page_cachable_default; it's all processor and
> even platform dependent. What you found is essentially an ordering bug
> so let's fix the ordering!
>
> Ralf
>
That's why I haven't proposed a fix yet. But there are other people
dealing with the same HIGHMEM issues and I wanted them to know about the
problem.
Jon
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