Question of kmap_atomic

Minchan Kim minchan.kim at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 20:44:29 EDT 2010


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On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am stuck with looking at ARM's kmap_atomic.
> I am not familiar with ARM cache model.
> As I look the code, ARM seems to have a VIPT aliasing model.
>
> Before Nicolas's 17ebba1fe, kmap_atomic always calls kmap_high_get to
> prevent aliasing problem of 7929eb9cf64 regardless of VIVT and VIPT.
>
> But the patch made it to not call kmap_high_get when VIPT-aliasing
> model in CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM.
> Doesn't it cause aliasing problem as 7929eb9cf64 says, again?
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
>



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