cache aliasing in dup_mmap

Steven Walter stevenrwalter at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 12:30:27 EDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 12:10:29PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> I don't think moving flush_cache_mm solves anything - the problem remains,
>> but with a different timing.
>
> On the other hand, this should solve the problem.  I'm not 100% happy
> with this because we end up using the cache flush ops on the same memory
> several times.

Russell

It appears that this patch is neither in Linus' tree nor the ARM
master branch.  Was a different fix committed to address the original
memory corruption issue?
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-Steven Walter <stevenrwalter at gmail.com>



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