cache aliasing in dup_mmap

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Nov 30 04:20:22 EST 2009


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:31:10PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Steven Walter wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> > <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > I'm afraid that I have nothing further to suggest, and so I'm shelving
> > > the patches.  That means this problem will remain unresolved in future
> > > kernels.
> > 
> > I had the tester restart the reboot-loop, and so far it's done ~1200
> > runs with no problem.  I'm thinking now that either I hosed something
> > up with the build initially, or else the tester didn't flash it
> > correctly.  1200 runs isn't enough to be conclusive, but it's a lot
> > better than 88.  I'll let you know when we have something more
> > definitive.
> 
> I'd just like to keep this issue hot so it doesn't get forgotten about.
> Are we at a conclusive point on this?

Today is decision day.  Do we go with these two patches or not?



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