Re: [PATCH] Revert "MIPS: Remove race window in page fault handling"

From: Lars Persson
Date: Wed Dec 03 2014 - 09:03:30 EST


It is the flush_dcache_page() that was called from the file-system
reading the page contents into memory.

- Lars

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 14:42 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Lars,
>
> normally set_pte_at() is invoked in a
>
> cache_flush_*()
> set_pte_at()
> tlb_flush_*()
>
> sequence. So I'm wondering if you're trying to fix something in set_pte_at
> that actually ought to be fixed in the cache_flush_*() function.
>
> I'm wondering, have you identified which cache flush function in particular
> was used in the sequence in your particular bug's case?
>
> Ralf



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