linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Flush dcache before writing into page to avoid alias

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:12:08 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	anfei <anfei.zhou@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Flush dcache before writing into page to avoid alias

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:59:59 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc> wrote:

> I just wanted to query what the status of this patch is. This patch
> seems to fix a real bug which causes a test suite to fail on ARM [0].
> The test suite passes on my VIVT ARM with this patch.
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524003

I have it queued for 2.6.33, backportable to 2.6.32.x, assuming that
nobody sees any issues with it.

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