Re: [PATCH] avoid unnecessary cache flushes

From: David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 12:06:28 EST


>>>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:37:25 -0700, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> said:

  Richard> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:00:39PM -0700, David Mosberger
  Richard> wrote:
>> I didn't think there was any path where the kernel would on its
>> own update code after the fact, but I could be missing something.

  Richard> ptrace?

ptrace() is handled separately (it's like a user in that sense: it
takes care of establishing coherence by calling the appropriate
flushing routine).

        --david
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