Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Tue, 4 Sep 2001 10:06:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] avoid unnecessary cache flushes |
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>>>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:37:25 -0700, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> said:
Richard> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:00:39PM -0700, David Mosberger Richard> wrote: >> I didn't think there was any path where the kernel would on its >> own update code after the fact, but I could be missing something.
Richard> ptrace?
ptrace() is handled separately (it's like a user in that sense: it takes care of establishing coherence by calling the appropriate flushing routine).
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