Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964905AbWL1Fi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:38:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964931AbWL1Fi0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:38:26 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.239]:2295 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964905AbWL1FiZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:38:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uP1nByQbBq3mLmBXtsH6K98J4MKoeHzjoRMUGensoppZMf7cHa7Y74rLcJ7Cq43wzNUQFOKuvl+cONM07QqXnPhyGodJ223fLnWy+tsqfbYB3n1Weq8ZEbU3HfXhnub5j/LFnny5Q7KcT7uZcu1E54liCFT3oAZ5fg2IHMpqqrI= Message-ID: <97a0a9ac0612272138o5348488ahfde03f9e22a71b5d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:38:24 -0700 From: "Gordon Farquharson" To: "Linus Torvalds" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one Cc: "David Miller" , ranma@tdiedrich.de, tbm@cyrius.com, "Peter Zijlstra" , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, "Andrew Morton" , hugh@veritas.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, arjan@infradead.org, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061226.205518.63739038.davem@davemloft.net> <20061227.165246.112622837.davem@davemloft.net> <97a0a9ac0612272032uf5358c4qf12bf183f97309a6@mail.gmail.com> <97a0a9ac0612272115g4cce1f08n3c3c8498a6076bd5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 28 On 12/27/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > > > I don't think so. I did reduce the target size > > > > #define TARGETSIZE (100 << 12) > > That's just 400kB! > > There's no way you should see corruption with that kind of value. It > should all stay solidly in the cache. > > Is this perhaps with ARM nommu or something else strange? It may be that > the program just doesn't work at all if mmap() is faked out with a malloc > or similar. Definitely a question for the ARM gurus. I'm out of my depth. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson - 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/