[parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux tsbogend

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Sun, 30 Sep 2001 08:01:43 +0100


On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:42:33AM -0600, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> Log message:
> we need to flush pages used inside the kernel and passed to user processes
> otherwise because of the virtual alias we get mixed writebacks.
> FIMXE: flush_data_cache() isn't a very well optimized function for this
> purpose

flush_dcache_page() is perhaps the function you are looking for?  I'm
not sure I understand what the problem is since you didn't post a diff.
I'll investigate more when I get back tomrrow.

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