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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>
Cc: dony.he@huawei.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: vmalloc bugs in 2.4.5???
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 02:41:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011107024146.A1740@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011107.103947.74756322.nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>; from nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:39:47AM +0900

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:39:47AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

> In 2.4.5, flush_cache_all() (and flush_tlb_all()) is called in
> vmalloc_area_pages().  I think this call protect us from virtual
> aliasing problem.
> 
> By the way, does anybody have any problem with vmalloc on recent
> kernel?
> 
> In somewhere between 2.4.6 and 2.4.9, the call to flush_cache_all()
> disappered from vmalloc_area_pages().  I have a data corruption
> problem in vmalloc()ed area without this call.  I think we still need
> this call.

Entirely correct.  I'm just trying to find why this call got removed
in 2.4.10.  Clearly wrong;  I had not noticed that these two lines
got removed and thus was assuming the code of those two must somehow
be malfunctioning.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-07 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-05  7:34 vmalloc bugs in 2.4.5??? machael
2001-11-05  7:34 ` machael
2001-11-06 21:08 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-11-07  0:47   ` machael
2001-11-07  0:47     ` machael
2001-11-07  1:39   ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-11-07  2:09     ` machael
2001-11-07  2:09       ` machael
2001-11-07 10:41     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-11-07 11:29       ` machael
2001-11-07 11:29         ` machael
2001-11-08 15:16       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-12-26  3:32     ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-27  1:55       ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-12-27  3:12         ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-27  3:51           ` Atsushi Nemoto
2001-12-27  4:29             ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-27 16:01               ` Tommy S. Christensen
2001-12-27 21:19                 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-28  0:48                   ` machael thailer
2001-12-28  0:48                     ` machael thailer

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