linux-kernel - Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all that again

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Date:	Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:45:06 +0800
From:	Randolph Chung <randolph@...sq.org>
To:	Randolph Chung <randolph@...sq.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all
 that again

>> Is the documentation wrong?
> 
> Yes.  As I've already explained there is no guarantee that
> get_user_pages() is only called to obtain pages for the current
> process, and flush_anon_pages() is called irrespective of which
> user process is being 'got'.

ok, it's easy enough to fix, I'm just trying to point out that it's 
being implemented on parisc according to the documentation.

randolph



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