[PATCH] Flush dcache before writing into page to avoid alias

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Wed Jan 27 17:12:08 EST 2010


On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:59:59 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:

> I just wanted to query what the status of this patch is. This patch
> seems to fix a real bug which causes a test suite to fail on ARM [0].
> The test suite passes on my VIVT ARM with this patch.
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524003

I have it queued for 2.6.33, backportable to 2.6.32.x, assuming that
nobody sees any issues with it.




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