shared memory problem on ARM v5TE using threads

[christian pellegrin]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Ronen Shitrit <rshitrit at marvell.com> wrote:

> "
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> I think your patch doesn't cover the PIO mode...
>

Has someone a suggestion on how to write a test-case for this? I tried
various forms of mixing read/write syscalls (or a mmap wit
MAP_PRIVATE) and access via two mmap with MAP_SHARED aliasing the same
address (I checked that adjust_pte was called by them) but didn't get
any problem. I have to admit that I really don't understand how PIO in
kernel mode can refer to mappings that are aliased (and so market
uncacheable) made by user-space programs. Thank you for your patience.

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