From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: flush_cache_page()
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:07:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112150713.GA21847@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050111223652.D30946@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:36:52PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Any responses on this? Didn't get any last time I mailed this out.
>
> I guess we're now at a point where we can start considering whether
> to merge this or not.
>
> However, since it's been rather a long time, I will need to go
> back and redo this patch, along with all the other patches which
> get ARMv6 VIPT aliasing caches working, and then confirm that this
> does indeed end up with something which works.
>
> I just don't want to go chasing my tail on something which essentially
> is unacceptable.
It would help for the MIPS VIPT caches also; the underlying issues are
the same. As a longstanding bug we're walking pagetables always praying
the caller is holding the lock ...
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-11 22:36 Fwd: Re: flush_cache_page() Russell King
2005-01-12 0:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-29 11:37 ` Russell King
2005-01-29 14:29 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-29 16:52 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-01-31 2:38 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-12 15:07 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-01-28 15:19 ` Paul Mundt
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