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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <pdh@colonel-panic.org>, Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>,
	Bob Breuer <bbreuer@righthandtech.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: problems on D-cache alias in 2.4.22
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:24:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084904673.10535.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040518195055.GB2454@linux-mips.org>

On Maw, 2004-05-18 at 20:50, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Carelessly written PIO drivers on any architecture would suffer from this
> kind of problem.

It isnt a driver problem. (Ramdisk is a bit special as you get aliases
in funny ways). The block and page cache is responsible for sorting this
out.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-18 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-18 18:17 problems on D-cache alias in 2.4.22 Bob Breuer
2004-05-18 18:17 ` Bob Breuer
2004-05-18 18:45 ` Jun Sun
2004-05-18 19:10   ` Peter Horton
2004-05-18 19:50     ` Ralf Baechle
2004-05-18 18:24       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-05-18 21:21       ` Peter Horton
2004-05-18 22:25     ` Jun Sun
2004-05-18 23:29       ` Peter Horton
2004-05-18 20:02 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-05-18 20:10 ` Thiemo Seufer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-13 22:05 Bob Breuer
2004-05-13 22:05 ` Bob Breuer
2004-05-14  2:59 ` wuming
2004-05-14  7:52   ` Peter Horton
2004-05-15  0:12   ` Ralf Baechle
2004-05-15 12:31     ` Fuxin Zhang
2004-05-13  6:52 wuming
2004-05-14  7:45 ` Peter Horton

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