aoe: prevent cache aliases
authorPeter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:17:46 +0000 (13:17 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 2 Dec 2009 00:32:20 +0000 (16:32 -0800)
Prevent the AoE block driver from creating cache aliases of page cache
pages on machines with virtually indexed caches.

Building kernels on an AT91SAM9G20 board without this patch fails with
segmentation faults after a couple of passes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Horton <zero@colonel-panic.org>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c

index 965ece2c7e4da6040454443395adb89240eaa475..13bb69d2abb3307d8cb95c9f21e04e0c7b2e9ae8 100644 (file)
@@ -735,6 +735,21 @@ diskstats(struct gendisk *disk, struct bio *bio, ulong duration, sector_t sector
        part_stat_unlock();
 }
 
+/*
+ * Ensure we don't create aliases in VI caches
+ */
+static inline void
+killalias(struct bio *bio)
+{
+       struct bio_vec *bv;
+       int i;
+
+       if (bio_data_dir(bio) == READ)
+               __bio_for_each_segment(bv, bio, i, 0) {
+                       flush_dcache_page(bv->bv_page);
+               }
+}
+
 void
 aoecmd_ata_rsp(struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
@@ -853,8 +868,12 @@ aoecmd_ata_rsp(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
        if (buf && --buf->nframesout == 0 && buf->resid == 0) {
                diskstats(d->gd, buf->bio, jiffies - buf->stime, buf->sector);
-               n = (buf->flags & BUFFL_FAIL) ? -EIO : 0;
-               bio_endio(buf->bio, n);
+               if (buf->flags & BUFFL_FAIL)
+                       bio_endio(buf->bio, -EIO);
+               else {
+                       killalias(buf->bio);
+                       bio_endio(buf->bio, 0);
+               }
                mempool_free(buf, d->bufpool);
        }