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

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Message-Id: <1167557242.20929.647.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:27:22 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, torvalds@...l.org,
	miklos@...redi.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: fuse, get_user_pages, flush_anon_page, aliasing caches and all
	that again


> 
> However, it's not only FUSE which is suffering - direct-IO also doesn't
> work. 

for direct-IO the kernel won't touch the data *at all*... (that's the
point ;) 

is it still an issue then?

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