On Mon 09-12-19 16:56:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 14:53:35 -0800 John Hubbard jhubbard@nvidia.com wrote:
After DMA is complete, and the device and CPU caches are synchronized, it's still required to mark the CPU pages as dirty, if the data was coming from the device. However, this driver was just issuing a bare put_page() call, without any set_page_dirty*() call.
Fix the problem, by calling set_page_dirty_lock() if the CPU pages were potentially receiving data from the device.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Acked-by: Hans Verkuil hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab mchehab@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
What are the user-visible effects of this change?
Presumably loss of captured video data if the page writeback hits in the wrong moment (i.e., after the page was faulted in but before the video HW stored data in the page) and the page then gets evicted from the page cache.
Honza