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Message-ID: <20100514174153.GB10133@shareable.org>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 18:41:53 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Saeed Bishara <saeed@...vell.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@...vell.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
"Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar@...com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Rampant ext3/4 corruption on 2.6.34-rc7 with VIVT ARM (Marvell 88f5182)
Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:47:11AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Now, in the case at hand, which is my ARM based NAS, I believe this
> > is non cache-coherent and thus uses cache flush ops. I don't know ARM
> > well enough but I would expect these to be implicit barriers. Russell ?
> > Nico ?
>
> ARMv5 doesn't have a weak memory ordering model, and doesn't have any
> memory barrier instructions.
It does have buffered writes, doesn't it? Are they always flushed by
the cache flush ops?
-- Jamie
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