Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:07:13 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: flush_cache_page()
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:36:52PM +0000, Russell King wrote:

> Any responses on this?  Didn't get any last time I mailed this out.
> 
> I guess we're now at a point where we can start considering whether
> to merge this or not.
> 
> However, since it's been rather a long time, I will need to go
> back and redo this patch, along with all the other patches which
> get ARMv6 VIPT aliasing caches working, and then confirm that this
> does indeed end up with something which works.
> 
> I just don't want to go chasing my tail on something which essentially
> is unacceptable.

It would help for the MIPS VIPT caches also; the underlying issues are
the same.  As a longstanding bug we're walking pagetables always praying
the caller is holding the lock ...

  Ralf
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