On Wed, 13 Oct 2010, Kevin Cernekee wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's this disabling of interrupts which I don't like. ÂIt's easy to get > > around it by having one kmap type for each of process, softirq and > > interrupt context. > > I am curious as to why ARM opted for the "pte push/pop" strategy > (kmap_high_l1_vipt()) instead of something along these lines? > > Is there a reason why using 3 kmap types to solve the "interrupted > flush problem" would work for MIPS, but is not a good solution on ARM? It would probably be a good solution for ARM as well. Nicolas
