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

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 04:49:22 EST

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   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
   Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 02:12:04 -0700

   install_page() is prefaulting pages into pagetables, so perhaps it should
   have an update_mmu_cache()?

I agree. Someone should take a close look at the do_file_page()
code paths to make sure that's still kosher after such a change.
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