Re: Compaq Alpha: missing i-cache invalidates in ptrace (2.2.18, 2.4.0) ?

[James Cownie]

Jeff Garzik asked :-

> Does the same Alpha problem exist in 2.4.1-AC patches?  (Alan Cox's
> patchkit)

It looks as if there's a very suitable fix in kernel/ptrace.c .

In access_one_page we have 

	if (write) {
		maddr = kmap(page);
		memcpy(maddr + (addr & ~PAGE_MASK), buf, len);
		flush_page_to_ram(page);
		flush_icache_page(vma, page);
		kunmap(page);
	}

which looks ideal to me...

That still leaves 2.2 broken, though :-(

-- Jim 

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