Luck, Tony wrote:
If another processor has a purge floating out there on the bus at this time, it would be because that other processor was making some change to this mapping. In which case it would have executed: *pte = new_value ptc Are you saying that these events may become visible to the processor that is executing the dirty_bit handler in either order, so that you are worried we'll see the old *pte value when we do the load, but miss the purge because we didn't wait for the itc.d to complete before we did the load?
Yes, I should have said in this way. Thanks, Zoltan - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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