Hi,
As far as I understand Documentation/cachetlb.txt the access_process_vm
function in kernel/ptrace.c handles the D-cache not correctly.
I think it should go as I patched.
Frank.
--- ptrace.c.orig Tue Oct 15 16:12:31 2002
+++ ptrace.c Tue Oct 15 16:19:49 2002
@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@
maddr = kmap(page);
if (write) {
memcpy(maddr + offset, buf, bytes);
- flush_page_to_ram(page);
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
flush_icache_user_range(vma, page, addr, len);
} else {
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
memcpy(buf, maddr + offset, bytes);
- flush_page_to_ram(page);
}
kunmap(page);
put_page(page);
-
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