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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ptep_establish/establish_pte needs set_pte_atomic and all set_pte must be written in asm
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 15:31:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096176717.576.295.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040926013637.GU3309@dualathlon.random>

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 11:36, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> the only one not volatile, or can you find more?

I'm not sure all DMA descriptor buffers are marked volatile but yes,
I tend to agree with you on the fact that it may be a good idea

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-26  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-25 15:54 ptep_establish/establish_pte needs set_pte_atomic and all set_pte must be written in asm Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 23:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-26  0:20   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26  0:31     ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-26  0:46       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26  0:59         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-26  1:36           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26  5:31             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-09-26 20:30           ` Paul Mackerras
     [not found]             ` <20040926203640.GR2499@dualathlon.random>
2004-09-27 16:41               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-28  9:12         ` Pavel Machek
2004-09-26  0:44     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-26  1:32       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26  5:29         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-09-26 15:39           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26 14:41       ` Martin J. Bligh
2004-09-26 15:41         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-25 23:44 ` Rik van Riel
2004-09-26  0:31   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-09-26  0:37     ` Rik van Riel

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