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1) If remaining ring space before the end of the ring is smaller then the
next cmd to write, tcmu writes a padding entry which fills the remaining
space at the end of the ring.
Then tcmu calls tcmu_flush_dcache_range() with the size of struct
tcmu_cmd_entry as data length to flush. If the space filled by the
padding was smaller then tcmu_cmd_entry, tcmu_flush_dcache_range() is
called for an address range reaching behind the end of the vmalloc'ed
ring.
tcmu_flush_dcache_range() in a loop calls
flush_dcache_page(virt_to_page(start)); for every page being part of the
range. On x86 the line is optimized out by the compiler, as
flush_dcache_page() is empty on x86.
But I assume the above can cause trouble on other architectures that
really have a flush_dcache_page(). For paddings only the header part of
an entry is relevant due to alignment rules the header always fits in
the remaining space, if padding is needed. So tcmu_flush_dcache_range()
can safely be called with sizeof(entry->hdr) as the length here.
2) After it has written a command to cmd ring, tcmu calls
tcmu_flush_dcache_range() using the size of a struct tcmu_cmd_entry as
data length to flush. But if a command needs many iovecs, the real size
of the command may be bigger then tcmu_cmd_entry, so a part of the
written command is not flushed then.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528193108.9085-1-bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com
Acked-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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