From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Cache alias handling in copy_user_page / copy_user_highpage
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:28:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061005222834.GA19258@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061005.130631.63128675.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:31PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > I found it to be much more maintainable to deal with this in C due to a
> > large number of processor variations to be supported.
>
> It is a reasonable reason to use code patching :-)
In which case I guess you will enjoy arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c which is
custom tayloring TLB exception handler for the particular CPU type, errata
workaround, UP/SMP and alot of other stuff ;)
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-05 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-19 12:25 Cache alias handling in copy_user_page / copy_user_highpage Ralf Baechle
2006-08-26 8:20 ` Russell King
2006-08-26 14:06 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-29 6:36 ` David Miller
2006-10-05 16:54 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-05 20:06 ` David Miller
2006-10-05 22:28 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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