Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Linus Torvalds
2002-03-17T02:10:44Z

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:
>
> In particular I think it would help if set_pte could be given the
> mm_struct and the virtual address, then set_pte could fairly easily
> invalidate the hash-table entry (if any) corresponding to the PTE
> being changed. Would you consider a patch along these lines?

How about just doing a few more "update_mmu_cache()" type of things?

This is actually why update_mmu_cache() exists in the first place - to be
able to proactively fill in shadow information like hashed page tables.

Adding a "clear_mmu_cache()"?

Linus