From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:31:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73mypyxx6z.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080217124650.576990ce@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (Arjan van de Ven's message of "Sun\, 17 Feb 2008 12\:46\:50 -0800")
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
>
> the initial plan was for a depreciation period. Sadly it was untenable since the API
> was changing entirely to fix bugs and add a really important feature
> (the ability to clflush the exact range rather than wbinvd'ing the caches of all cpus in the system),
Just for the record: I posted full patches to implement clflush
support some time ago without changing any exported API. So your
claims that changing the API was needed to implement CLFLUSH are not
correct.
Also I believe some assumptions behind the new API are faulty (in
particular that the caller doesn't fully own the to be changed pages)
and make it actually impossible to implement the cache attribute PTE
changing operation fully correct according to the Intel x86 manual
(which requires temporary unmap)
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-17 9:25 Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25 Frans Pop
2008-02-17 13:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-17 19:24 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-17 19:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-17 20:38 ` Paul Jackson
2008-02-17 20:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-19 22:41 ` Frans Pop
2008-02-18 2:33 ` David Miller
2008-02-18 11:40 ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-02-18 12:27 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-19 21:55 ` Frans Pop
2008-02-19 21:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-19 22:15 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-02-19 22:19 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-19 22:49 ` Frans Pop
2008-02-17 20:46 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 12:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-18 16:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 17:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 17:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-18 18:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 20:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-18 18:52 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 18:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 19:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-19 9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 18:53 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-18 19:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-18 19:18 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-19 19:42 ` Siddha, Suresh B
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