Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263969AbTEWJIv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:08:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263970AbTEWJIv (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:08:51 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:12570 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263969AbTEWJIu (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:08:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:24:54 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Lothar Wassmann" Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] cache flush bug in mm/filemap.c (all kernels >= 2.5.30(at least)) Message-Id: <20030523022454.61a180dd.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <16077.55787.797668.329213@ipc1.karo> References: <16076.50160.67366.435042@ipc1.karo> <20030522151156.C12171@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <16077.55787.797668.329213@ipc1.karo> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2003 09:21:56.0522 (UTC) FILETIME=[C170B8A0:01C3210C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 722 Lines: 21 "Lothar Wassmann" wrote: > > And maybe because *every* other call to flush_page_to_ram() has been > replaced by one of the new interface macros except that one in > filemap_nopage() in 'mm/filemap.c'. > flush_page_to_ram() has been deleted from the kernel. filemap_nopage() is a pagecache function and shouldn't be fiddling with cache and/or TLB operations. Unless it touches the page by hand, which it does not. Please, test a current kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/