Re: [PATCH] M386 flush_one_tlb invlpg

Luca Barbieri (ldb@ldb.ods.org)
27 Aug 2002 22:45:29 +0200


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> There's another issue, which is the fact that I do not believe that invlpg
> is even guaranteed to invalidate a G page at all - although obviously all
> current CPU's seem to work that way. However, I don't see that documented
> anywhere.
You haven't read the P4 system architecture manual, section 3.11.
It explicitly says that invlpg ignores the G flag.

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