[PATCH] shmem missing cache flush

From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 13:26:30 EST

Really, this should be a clear_user_page(), but we can't reasonable get
a user address all the way down to it, so let's just flush it instead.
Note that 2.4 needs an equivalent fix.

diff -urpNX build-tools/dontdiff linus-2.5/mm/shmem.c parisc-2.5/mm/shmem.c
--- linus-2.5/mm/shmem.c Tue Oct 8 10:54:20 2002
+++ parisc-2.5/mm/shmem.c Tue Oct 8 16:49:24 2002
@@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ repeat:
                 info->alloced++;
                 spin_unlock(&info->lock);
                 clear_highpage(page);
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
                 SetPageUptodate(page);
         }
  

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