On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > In somewhere between 2.4.6 and 2.4.9, the call to flush_cache_all()
> > disappered from vmalloc_area_pages(). I have a data corruption
> > problem in vmalloc()ed area without this call. I think we still need
> > this call.
>
> Entirely correct. I'm just trying to find why this call got removed
> in 2.4.10. Clearly wrong; I had not noticed that these two lines
> got removed and thus was assuming the code of those two must somehow
> be malfunctioning.
See a mail titled "flush_tlb_all in vmalloc_area_pages" dated Sep 7th,
2001 sent to the linux-kernel list for the patch in question. There was a
discussion on cache flushing wrt to a TLB on the list under "[PATCH]
change name of rep_nop" subject later as well.
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