On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:57:26PM +0900, NIIBE Yutaka wrote:
> As he seems to be off-line these days, I submit the patch on behalf of
> him. If there's something wrong, it's due to me.
>
> SH-4 has virtually indexed and physically tagged cache, which has
> alias problem to be handled by kernel. When process exits, we need to
> flush the caches used by the process. If we don't do flush here,
> something wrong will be happened later, because of cache aliases, when
> the pages will be reused. The page will be polluted by old cache data
> in unrelated way.
>
> I don't know if TLB flush is needed, but every code has TLB flush, it
> is added.
The cache flush looks fine to me but the TLB flush is not necessary. The
kernel calls destroy_context(mm) from mmput() rsp. tlb_flush_mm(mm) from
exec_mmap which already deal with the TLB issues.
Ralf
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