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    mm/highmem: make kmap cache coloring aware · 15de36a4
    Max Filippov authored
    User-visible effect:
     Architectures that choose this method of maintaining cache coherency
    (MIPS and xtensa currently) are able to use high memory on cores with
    aliasing data cache.  Without this fix such architectures can not use
    high memory (in case of xtensa it means that at most 128 MBytes of
    physical memory is available).
    
    The problem:
     VIPT cache with way size larger than MMU page size may suffer from
    aliasing problem: a single physical address accessed via different
    virtual addresses may end up in multiple locations in the cache.
    Virtual mappings of a physical address that always get cached in
    different cache locations are said to have different colors.  L1 caching
    hardware usually doesn't handle this situation leaving it up to
    software.  Software must avoid this situation as it leads to data
    corruption.
    
    What can be done:
     One way to handle this is to flush and invalidate data cache every time
    page mapping changes color.  The other way is to always map ph...
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