Re: vmalloc bugs in 2.4.5???

["machael thailer" <dony.he@huawei.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@eicon.com>
Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <nemoto@toshiba-tops.co.jp>; <dony.he@huawei.com>; 
<linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: vmalloc bugs in 2.4.5???


> On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:01:23PM +0100, Tommy S. Christensen wrote:
> 
> > Great! But please make sure that the cache is flushed after the pages
> > are allocated instead of before.
> > 
> > With 2.4.9 that still had the cache-flushing in vmalloc_area_pages(), I
> > got cache aliasing problems in low memory situations (since alloc_page()
> > will re-schedule when no pages are available).
> 
> Correct; I fixed that one.  That's actually a nasty one, affects all
> previous Linux releases.  I wonder how this one went unnoticed for so long.
> Probably because loading modules is a relativly rare event or so.

How do you fix it? Can you mail your fixup code to me please?

machael