kernel: remove full cache flush in fuse_copy_do() for MIPS

This patch was introduced in commit r16412 for the brcm47xx target only
and then moved to generic in commit r32395. It was initially added
because of ticket #5186 and should fix some problems with fuse file
systems and MIPS caches. The commit comment in r32395 says that this a
generic problem in MIPS CPUs, but does not name any specifics about
that. There was a fix added to kernel 2.6.21 in commit commit
7575a49f20 "[MIPS] Implement flush_anon_page()." that should fix this
problem, but that was already available before both commits were done
to OpenWrt.

I just tested fuse with ntfs.3g without this patch on a BCM4704
(BMIPS3300 V0.6) SoC and haven't seen any problems. Someone reported
that removing this patch improves some fuse operations by 5 times on
some modern MIPS cores.
My test was only a simple "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/zero bs=5000" to an
USB stick.

This patch removes the patch to OpenWrt, because I assume that it is
not needed any more and Felix, the orginal author, also thinks so.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 934b119..0000000
--- a/target/linux/generic/patches-3.18/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void (*__flush_cache_vunmap)(void);
- 
- void (*__flush_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_kernel_vmap_range);
-+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__flush_cache_all);
- void (*__invalidate_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- 
- /* MIPS specific cache operations */
---- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
-+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
-@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
- #include <linux/swap.h>
- #include <linux/splice.h>
- #include <linux/aio.h>
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
-+#endif
- 
- MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(FUSE_MINOR);
- MODULE_ALIAS("devname:fuse");
-@@ -749,6 +752,9 @@ static int fuse_copy_fill(struct fuse_co
- static int fuse_copy_do(struct fuse_copy_state *cs, void **val, unsigned *size)
- {
-       unsigned ncpy = min(*size, cs->len);
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+      __flush_cache_all();
-+#endif
-       if (val) {
-               void *pgaddr = kmap_atomic(cs->pg);
-               void *buf = pgaddr + cs->offset;

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.1/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-4.1/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 7a3aa34..0000000
--- a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.1/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void (*__flush_cache_vunmap)(void);
- 
- void (*__flush_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_kernel_vmap_range);
-+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__flush_cache_all);
- void (*__invalidate_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- 
- /* MIPS specific cache operations */
---- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
-+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
-@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
- #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
- #include <linux/swap.h>
- #include <linux/splice.h>
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
-+#endif
- 
- MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(FUSE_MINOR);
- MODULE_ALIAS("devname:fuse");
-@@ -816,6 +819,9 @@ static int fuse_copy_fill(struct fuse_co
- static int fuse_copy_do(struct fuse_copy_state *cs, void **val, unsigned *size)
- {
-       unsigned ncpy = min(*size, cs->len);
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+      __flush_cache_all();
-+#endif
-       if (val) {
-               void *pgaddr = kmap_atomic(cs->pg);
-               void *buf = pgaddr + cs->offset;

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch b/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index 14d7962..0000000
--- a/target/linux/generic/patches-4.4/309-mips_fuse_workaround.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-+++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ void (*__flush_cache_vunmap)(void);
- 
- void (*__flush_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_kernel_vmap_range);
-+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__flush_cache_all);
- void (*__invalidate_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
- 
- /* MIPS specific cache operations */
---- a/fs/fuse/dev.c
-+++ b/fs/fuse/dev.c
-@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
- #include <linux/pipe_fs_i.h>
- #include <linux/swap.h>
- #include <linux/splice.h>
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
-+#endif
- 
- MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(FUSE_MINOR);
- MODULE_ALIAS("devname:fuse");
-@@ -802,6 +805,9 @@ static int fuse_copy_fill(struct fuse_co
- static int fuse_copy_do(struct fuse_copy_state *cs, void **val, unsigned *size)
- {
-       unsigned ncpy = min(*size, cs->len);
-+#ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
-+      __flush_cache_all();
-+#endif
-       if (val) {
-               void *pgaddr = kmap_atomic(cs->pg);
-               void *buf = pgaddr + cs->offset;

diff --git a/target/linux/lantiq/patches-4.4/0004-MIPS-lantiq-add-atm-hack.patch b/target/linux/lantiq/patches-4.4/0004-MIPS-lantiq-add-atm-hack.patch
index 6b97f395ecf28fbb3ed898c96869aa9dfc03cd63..53809d0a8f55fd7318b6e80cc857ee0248d0c3dc 100644 (file)
--- a/target/linux/lantiq/patches-4.4/0004-MIPS-lantiq-add-atm-hack.patch
+++ b/target/linux/lantiq/patches-4.4/0004-MIPS-lantiq-add-atm-hack.patch
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ Signed-off-by: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
  {
 --- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
 +++ b/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
-@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ void (*_dma_cache_wback)(unsigned long s
+@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ void (*_dma_cache_wback)(unsigned long s
  void (*_dma_cache_inv)(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);
  
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(_dma_cache_wback_inv);