From: anfei.zhou@gmail.com (anfei)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: flush_dcache_page does too much?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:57:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100118145731.GA14523@desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100118144418.GE2695@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:44:18PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:15:30PM +0800, anfei wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:00:05PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 09:54:31PM +0800, anfei wrote:
> > > > Do you mean this implementation can ensure the coherence between write
> > > > and shared mmapings? But it's easy to reproduce the alias problem by
> > > > this simple testcase (w/o error handler) on omap2430 with VIPT cache:
> > >
> > > Your program doesn't do anything to identify any problem. You don't
> > > even say _what_ problem you see with this program.
> > >
> > Sorry for that.
> >
> > > If you have a specific case which fails, please show the problem, please
> > > describe exactly the behaviour that you see, and what you expect to see.
>
> Are you using a write allocate cache?
I guess not, because this line is neccessary to reproduce the issue:
tmp = *(addr+0);
If it's write allocate, this line may not be neccessary, since it's just
a read (and cache the data).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-18 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-18 13:13 flush_dcache_page does too much? anfei
2010-01-18 13:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-18 13:54 ` anfei
2010-01-18 14:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-18 14:15 ` anfei
2010-01-18 14:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-18 14:53 ` anfei
2010-01-18 14:57 ` anfei [this message]
2010-01-18 15:01 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-19 0:16 ` anfei
2010-01-19 13:05 ` anfei
2010-01-19 17:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-01-19 18:33 ` Jamie Lokier
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