On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:47:30 +0100, linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Turns out 6a36458d9348265327d074bdd40bfb1c5b6fb2cb wasn't quite right. > When called for a page that isn't marked dirty it would artificially > create an alias instead of doing the obvious thing and access the page > via KSEG0. > > The same issue also exists in copy_to_user_page and copy_from_user_page > which was causing the machine to die under rare circumstances for example > when running ps if the BUG_ON() assertion added by the earlier fix was > getting triggered. This commit added a SetPageDcacheDirty() call for both copy_to_user_page() and copy_from_user_page(). The call in copy_from_user_page() is really needed? --- Atsushi Nemoto
