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mm: fix cache coloring on x86_64 architecture
authorMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:17:16 +0000 (14:17 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 05:23:05 +0000 (16:23 +1100)
commit832ad6b846b2258d06eb559f6f5f72722284b9f9
treead455e21c87ae0c1d28874995b95f93cb6a90a59
parentdf2072130a4479a6397be60ffe3d858afa650de2
mm: fix cache coloring on x86_64 architecture

Fix the x86-64 cache alignment code to take pgoff into account.  Use the
x86 and MIPS cache alignment code as the basis for a generic cache
alignment function.

The old x86 code will always align the mmap to aliasing boundaries,
even if the program mmaps the file with a non-zero pgoff.

If program A mmaps the file with pgoff 0, and program B mmaps the file
with pgoff 1.  The old code would align the mmaps, resulting in misaligned
pages:

A:  0123
B:  123

After this patch, they are aligned so the pages line up:

A: 0123
B:  123

Proposed by Rik van Riel.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c