Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

From: Hiro Yoshioka
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 23:58:11 EST


From: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > The following patch does not use MMX regsiters so that we don't have
> > to worry about save/restore the FPU/MMX states.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I think __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache() should be followed by sfence
> or mfence instruction to flush the data.

Thanks. I'll implement it.

Regards,
Hiro
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