Re: [patch] cache flush bug in mm/filemap.c (all kernels >= 2.5.30(at least))

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 02:16:35 EST


On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 06:37:00PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Specifically, flush_dcache_page() is called any time the kernel makes
> cpu stores into a page cache page that might be mapped into a user's
> address space.

Presumably then the two in drivers/block/rd.c (ramdisk_readpage and
ramdisk_prepare_write) are out of spec then?

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