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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:13:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061019181346.GA5421@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4537B9FB.7050303@yahoo.com.au>

On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 03:46:35AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:

> What about if you just flush the caches after write protecting all
> COW pages? Would that work? Simpler? Better performance? (I don't know)

That would require changing the order of cache flush and tlb flush.  To
keep certain architectures that require a valid translation in the TLB
the cacheflush has to be done first.  Not sure if those architectures need
a writeable mapping for dirty cachelines - I think hypersparc was one
of them.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-19 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19 16:35 [PATCH 1/3] Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork Ralf Baechle
2006-10-19 16:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] Pass vma argument to copy_user_highpage() Ralf Baechle
2006-10-19 16:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] MIPS: Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork Ralf Baechle
2006-10-22  2:32   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-19 17:46 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Nick Piggin
2006-10-19 18:13   ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2006-10-19 18:48     ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-19 22:59     ` David Miller
2006-10-20 14:39       ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 15:49         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 15:57           ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 16:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 16:47               ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 17:16                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 17:37                   ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-21  0:46                 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-20 19:36           ` David Miller
2006-10-20 19:54             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 19:58               ` David Miller
2006-10-20 20:10                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 20:59                   ` Russell King
2006-10-20 21:06                     ` David Miller
2006-10-20 21:17                       ` Russell King
2006-10-20 21:30                         ` David Miller
2006-10-20 21:12                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 21:28                       ` Russell King
2006-10-20 21:41                       ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-21 16:28                         ` Atsushi Nemoto
2006-10-20 21:49                   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-20 22:02                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-20 22:22                       ` David Miller
2006-10-20 22:51                         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-20 23:28                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-21  0:06                             ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-21  0:38                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-21  1:29                                 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-21  2:11                                 ` David Miller
2006-10-21  2:37                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-21  2:46                                     ` David Miller
2006-10-21 18:27                                     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-22  1:34                                     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-12-02  9:49                                 ` Russell King
2006-10-23  8:50                   ` Martin Schwidefsky
2006-10-20 16:05         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-10-20 16:30           ` Nick Piggin
2006-10-20 19:23         ` David Miller

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