On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:29:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > > > > I think that's wrong, really. We've discussed this before and decided that > > these flushing operations should be open-coded in the main .c file rather > > than embedded in arch functions which happen to undocumentedly do other > > stuff. > > err, OK, I give up. Lots of architectures do the cache flush in > tlb_start_vma(). I guess mips may as well do the same. > Looking at my tree (which is from linux-mips.org), it appears arm, sparc, sparc64, and sh have tlb_start_vma() defined to call cache flushing. What exactly does tlb_start_vma()/tlb_end_vma() mean? There is only one invocation instance, which is significant enough to infer the meaning. :) BTW, either my original hack or putting a cache flush in tlb_start_vma() solves my problem. They are really doing the same thing, just at different places. Jun
