Re: New version of pageattr caching conflict fix for 2.4

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:37:24PM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:24:29AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > This version is missing a few of the fixes included in my version: 
> > > it doesn't properly flush global tlb entries, or update the page 
> > 
> > Sure it does. INVLPG (__flush_tlb_one) flushes global entries.
> 
> It failed to do so in my testing.  The only safe way of flushing 

just a fast comment on this bit: x86 specs state invlpg must flush
global entries from the tlb too, see also the kmap_prot as pratical
reference.

Andrea