Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:56:10 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix loop device cache handling |
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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:
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