Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:39:57 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Problems with kernel mmap (failing tst-mmap-eofsync in glibc on parisc) |
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:42:03 +0100 Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > Gah, that's going to get really inefficient. I still think we want to > > split flush_dcache_page() into two operations -- flush_dcache_user() and > > flush_dcache_kernel(). flush_dcache_user() would flush this specific > > user mapping back to ram and flush_dcache_kernel() would flush the > > kernel mapping. > > Where are you proposing calling only _user() and _kernel() from ?
The is not acceptable answer.
Purely, flush_dcache_page() is defined to execute when the kernel stores into a page cache page, and that is it's only valid definition.
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