Re: [PATCH] avoid unnecessary cache flushes

David Mosberger
2001-09-04T17:06:48Z

>>>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:37:25 -0700, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> said:

Richard> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:00:39PM -0700, David Mosberger
Richard> wrote:
>> I didn't think there was any path where the kernel would on its
>> own update code after the fact, but I could be missing something.

Richard> ptrace?

ptrace() is handled separately (it's like a user in that sense: it
takes care of establishing coherence by calling the appropriate
flushing routine).

--david