On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > In somewhere between 2.4.6 and 2.4.9, the call to flush_cache_all() > > disappered from vmalloc_area_pages(). I have a data corruption > > problem in vmalloc()ed area without this call. I think we still need > > this call. > > Entirely correct. I'm just trying to find why this call got removed > in 2.4.10. Clearly wrong; I had not noticed that these two lines > got removed and thus was assuming the code of those two must somehow > be malfunctioning. See a mail titled "flush_tlb_all in vmalloc_area_pages" dated Sep 7th, 2001 sent to the linux-kernel list for the patch in question. There was a discussion on cache flushing wrt to a TLB on the list under "[PATCH] change name of rep_nop" subject later as well. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
