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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>
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Subject: Re: shared memory
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:17:25PM +0200, Tom Appermont wrote:

> While this works as expected on PC, it does not at all work as
> expected on my mips platform (R5231): What is written in user
> space is not immediately visible in kernel space. This is with
> very recent kernel sources (2.4.8) but the same problem exists
> with an older (2.4.5) kernel.
> 
> There have been a few mails about mmap() problems in the last 
> couple of months, but with very little interesting response. Is 
> this a known problem or am I stupidly overlooking something?

This is a different problem - and it's one caused by your code.  You're
missing the necessary cache flushes in the kernel code.  Using
_CACHE_UNCACHED is slow and breaks SMP.

 Ralf