From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mattjreimer@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:59:48 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061205.165948.98864221.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f383264b0612051657r2b62c7acnf10b2800934ab8b3@mail.gmail.com>
From: "Matt Reimer" <mattjreimer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:57:12 -0800
> Right, but isn't he declaring that each architecture needs to take
> care of this? So, say, on ARM we'd need to make kunmap() not a NOP and
> call flush_dcache_page() ?
No. He is only solving a problem that occurs on HIGHMEM
configurations on systems which can have D-cache aliasing
issues.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-06 0:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-05 7:38 [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page Matt Reimer
2006-12-05 21:24 ` David Miller
2006-12-06 0:57 ` Matt Reimer
2006-12-06 0:59 ` David Miller [this message]
2006-12-06 7:04 ` Matt Reimer
2006-12-06 21:19 ` Matt Reimer
2006-12-07 0:46 ` David Miller
2006-12-07 6:20 ` Matt Reimer
2006-12-07 7:22 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-17 9:15 [PATCH] mm:D-cache " Dmitriy Monakhov
2006-10-19 6:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 6:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:00 ` David Miller
2006-10-19 7:00 ` David Miller, Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:22 ` David Miller
2006-10-19 7:22 ` David Miller, Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-19 7:41 ` Andrew Morton
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