Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:51:22PM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > > > >>>>> On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 01:12:22 -0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> said: > > ralf> Yes, you're right as for the cache. But there is no reason for > > ralf> the TLB flush, right? > > > > Yes, I agree. > > Ok, I'll make a patch for Marcelo. Being in Brazil right now is useful, > I can beat him into accepting it ;-) > > Ralf Great! But please make sure that the cache is flushed after the pages are allocated instead of before. With 2.4.9 that still had the cache-flushing in vmalloc_area_pages(), I got cache aliasing problems in low memory situations (since alloc_page() will re-schedule when no pages are available). -Tommy
