Re: [PATCH] flush_cache_page while pte valid

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:01:20 -0800 (PST)


From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:53:14 +0100

The lost dirty bit can only happen on cpus where the hardware maintains
a dirty bit. I doubt that the sparc cpus do that in hardware.

sun4m sparc32 chips do, exactly like x86

Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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