2008/11/20 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > [ ... ] > > - The page is sent to the block layer, which stores into the page. Some > block devices like 'brd' will potentially store via the kernel linear map > here, and they probably don't do enough cache flushing. btw., if someone is curious, here is another case of what may happen on VIPT systems when someone uses a "virtual" block device (like 'brd') as, heh, a swap :-) http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2008-11/msg00038.html -- Best regards, Dmitry Adamushko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
