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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:01:20 -0800 (PST)
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To: manfred@colorfullife.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] flush_cache_page while pte valid
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
   Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:53:14 +0100

   The lost dirty bit can only happen on cpus where the hardware maintains 
   a dirty bit. I doubt that the sparc cpus do that in hardware.
   
sun4m sparc32 chips do, exactly like x86

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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