[PATCH] Flush the D-cache during copy_user_highpage()

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Nov 24 12:06:15 EST 2009


On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 17:03 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:00:39PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > The I and D caches for copy-on-write pages on processors with
> > write-allocate caches become incoherent causing problems on application
> > relying on CoW for text pages (dynamic linker relocating symbols in a
> > text page). This patch flushes the D-cache for such pages.
> 
> Don't we need to do this on ARMv7 as well?

Do you mean an improvement to the patch description?

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Catalin




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