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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] QEMU Port (Help needed)
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:19:47 -0600
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On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:48:17PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> 4. flush_icache_range can probably be copied from the kernel implementation.

Why are we still talking about doing flush_icache_range() in userspace?
Why does qemu not use mprotect() to set either PROT_EXEC or PROT_WRITE
(and never both at the same time)?  The kernel will flush userspace
appopriately (and if it doesn't, that's a bug).
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