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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	hugh@veritas.com
Subject: Re: + sparc64-rename-tlb_flush_mmu.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:08:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717120820.86a50e75.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717181843.GB16147@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:18:43 +0100 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:56:23PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 01:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > OK, I don't understand how this patch works - from a quick glance it
> > > appears to be forgetting to flush stuff altogether on arm and arm26 at
> > > least and I see no sign that Russell, Tony and Ian have even seen it.
> > 
> > Added linux-arch so that affected arch-maintainers can comment.
> 
> Having a little more information about Andrew's concern would be nice.
> Under what circumstances do you think we're forgetting to flush stuff?
> 

"quick glance".  ARM's tlb_flush_mmu() becomes a no-op and I though that
some real tlb_finish_mmu() got replaced by that.  But I didn't look very
closely.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200707170748.l6H7m1so005969@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <20070717005551.cdb9504e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]   ` <20070717010324.833fee7e.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 13:56     ` + sparc64-rename-tlb_flush_mmu.patch added to -mm tree Martin Schwidefsky
2007-07-17 18:18       ` Russell King
2007-07-17 19:08         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-17 21:14           ` Russell King
2007-07-17 21:42             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-18  7:48               ` Martin Schwidefsky
2007-07-17 21:55       ` Luck, Tony
2007-07-17 22:04         ` Russell King
2007-07-17 22:21           ` Luck, Tony

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