On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:07:50PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > update_mmu_cache() does not appear to check the size of the translation > to be established in many architectures. e.g. on arch/ia64/ it does > flush_icache_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE) unconditionally, and only > sets PG_arch_1 on a single struct page. Similar comments apply to > sparc64 and ppc64; I didn't check any others. In general not much seems to be getting done about cache coherency in hugetlb at all. This may be problematic even in mainline. -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Aug 7 04:13:29 2004
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