Re: New version of pageattr caching conflict fix for 2.4

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:17:26AM -0400, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 06:00:25AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It's not the 4KB pages that I'm worried about so much as the 4MB pages.

Both AMD x86-64 and Intel IA32 documentation states that INVLPG flushes global
TLBs. The first version of change_page_attr did in fact use __flush_tlb_all,
but I changed it after checking the docs.

-Andi