From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Leonid Yegoshin <Leonid.Yegoshin@imgtec.com>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>, <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
<ralf@linux-mips.org>, David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>,
<stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MIPS: Make set_pte() SMP safe.
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:38:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C122D7.3040803@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55C12263.7070407@imgtec.com>
On 08/04/2015 01:36 PM, Leonid Yegoshin wrote:
> David,
>
> Note: Excuse me for bothering you but if guard page logic doesn't work
> anymore then it can be scraped. It allows me to optimize some cache
> flushes in VMAP area - instead of flushing a full cache, just flush a
> range of pages.
>
I don't know what the purpose of guard pages is. I thought it was to
produce an OOPs message if you accessed just beyond the end of the vmap
area. If people are using them for some other reason, then I am not
aware of it.
David.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-04 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 0:48 [PATCH] MIPS: Make set_pte() SMP safe David Daney
2015-08-04 19:15 ` Leonid Yegoshin
2015-08-04 20:01 ` David Daney
2015-08-04 20:32 ` Leonid Yegoshin
2015-08-04 20:36 ` Leonid Yegoshin
2015-08-04 20:38 ` David Daney [this message]
2015-08-04 20:47 ` Leonid Yegoshin
2015-08-04 20:48 ` David Daney
2015-08-04 20:58 ` Leonid Yegoshin
2015-08-24 3:28 ` [PATCH] " Joshua Kinard
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