Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:59:48 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page | From | David Miller <> |
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From: "Matt Reimer" <mattjreimer@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:57:12 -0800
> Right, but isn't he declaring that each architecture needs to take > care of this? So, say, on ARM we'd need to make kunmap() not a NOP and > call flush_dcache_page() ?
No. He is only solving a problem that occurs on HIGHMEM configurations on systems which can have D-cache aliasing issues. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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