Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 03:04:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] cache flush bug in mm/filemap.c (all kernels >= 2.5.30(at least)) |
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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: > > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> > Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:12:04 -0700 > > install_page() is prefaulting pages into pagetables, so perhaps it should > have an update_mmu_cache()? > > I agree. Someone should take a close look at the do_file_page() > code paths to make sure that's still kosher after such a change.
What would one be looking for? I don't know what the sideeffects of update_mmu_cache() might be.
It looks to be the same as do_no_page() though: the update_mmu_cache() is the last substantive thing which happens in the fault or the syscall.
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