From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless flush_dcache_page call
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:01:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116060124.GG31013@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090116055927.GA22810@wotan.suse.de>
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:59:27AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> But there are quite possibly holes around here because not as much testing
> is done on CPUs with these kinds of caches. Eg. brd probably should be
> doing a flush_dcache_page in the rw == WRITE direction AFAIKS, so it picks
> up user aliases here.
Nick, if you wanted me to schlep a parisc machine to LCA for you, you
needed to ask me *before* I got as far as Vancouver ;-)
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-16 6:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-16 5:28 [PATCH] Remove needless flush_dcache_page call MinChan Kim
2009-01-16 5:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16 5:51 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-16 5:57 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-01-16 6:08 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-16 6:13 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 6:16 ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-16 5:59 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-16 6:01 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
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