cache aliasing in dup_mmap

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 23 15:31:10 EST 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Steven Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm afraid that I have nothing further to suggest, and so I'm shelving
> > the patches.  That means this problem will remain unresolved in future
> > kernels.
> 
> I had the tester restart the reboot-loop, and so far it's done ~1200
> runs with no problem.  I'm thinking now that either I hosed something
> up with the build initially, or else the tester didn't flash it
> correctly.  1200 runs isn't enough to be conclusive, but it's a lot
> better than 88.  I'll let you know when we have something more
> definitive.

I'd just like to keep this issue hot so it doesn't get forgotten about.
Are we at a conclusive point on this?



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