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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/10] vmalloc: call flush_cache_vunmap() from unmap_kernel_range()
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    On Wednesday 18 February 2009 23:04:27 Tejun Heo wrote:
    > Impact: proper vcache flush on unmap_kernel_range()
    >
    > flush_cache_vunmap() should be called before pages are unmapped. Add
    > a call to it in unmap_kernel_range().
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

    Shouldn't this go as a fix to mainline and even .stable?

    Otherwise:
    Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

    > ---
    > mm/vmalloc.c | 2 ++
    > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
    >
    > diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
    > index 75f49d3..c37924a 100644
    > --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
    > +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
    > @@ -1012,6 +1012,8 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void)
    > void unmap_kernel_range(unsigned long addr, unsigned long size)
    > {
    > unsigned long end = addr + size;
    > +
    > + flush_cache_vunmap(addr, end);
    > vunmap_page_range(addr, end);
    > flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, end);
    > }




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