[PATCH 4/4] Do not call flush_cache_user_range with mmap_sem held
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Dec 14 14:05:03 EST 2010
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 05:51:36PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> But what's the problem if such mapping disappears? The
> flush_cache_user_range code should just skip such pages.
That's only half the story.
What if someone remaps something over that range before the cache
maintainence has completed.
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