Re: [patch] cache flush bug in mm/filemap.c (all kernels >= 2.5.30(at least))

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"Lothar Wassmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de> wrote:
>
> And maybe because *every* other call to flush_page_to_ram() has been
> replaced by one of the new interface macros except that one in
> filemap_nopage() in 'mm/filemap.c'.
>

flush_page_to_ram() has been deleted from the kernel.

filemap_nopage() is a pagecache function and shouldn't be fiddling with
cache and/or TLB operations. Unless it touches the page by hand, which it
does not.

Please, test a current kernel.

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