Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] DO flush icache before set_pte() on ia64.

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:19:41 +1000
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> From what I can work out, it is something like "at this point the page
> >>should be uptodate, so at least the icache won't contain *inconsistent*
> >>data, just old data which userspace should take care of flushing if it
> >>modifies". Is that always true?
> > 
> >  
> > I think it's true. But, in this case, i-cache doesn't contain *incositent* data.
> > There are inconsistency between L2-Dcache and L3-mixed-cache. At L2-icache-miss,
> > a cpu fetches data from L3 cache.
> > This case seems defficult to be generalized...
> 
> If there is something in the icache line that isn't the last data to
> be stored at that address, isn't that inconsistent?
> 
Hmm..do we have a chance to add do_flush_cache_if_not_filled_by_dma(page)
before SetPageUptodate(page) ?

-Kame

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