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DateTue, 1 Jun 2004 21:56:10 -0700
From"David S. Miller" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix loop device cache handling
On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 18:03:36 +0100
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> The effect of this is that we pull the loop device page into cache
> to exhasibate the problem, since newly allocated pages are _not_
> guaranteed to be completely clean of cache lines in their kernel
> space mapping.
> 
> Note that other drivers need to be audited to ensure that any CPU
> writes to page cache pages have a flush_dcache_page() call.
> 
> This patch adds the necessary missing flush:

I %100 agree with this patch.
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