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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: vmtruncate question
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:53:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <396BCFA8.C033D94A@uow.edu.au> (raw)

The flushes which surround the second call to zap_page_range()
would appear to be flushing more memory than is to be
zapped.  Is this correct, or should it be:

--- memory.c.orig	Wed Jul 12 11:49:08 2000
+++ memory.c	Wed Jul 12 11:49:31 2000
@@ -980,9 +980,9 @@
 			partial_clear(mpnt, start);
 			start = (start + ~PAGE_MASK) & PAGE_MASK;
 		}
-		flush_cache_range(mm, start, end);
+		flush_cache_range(mm, start, start + len);
 		zap_page_range(mm, start, len);
-		flush_tlb_range(mm, start, end);
+		flush_tlb_range(mm, start, start + len);
 	} while ((mpnt = mpnt->vm_next_share) != NULL);
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&mapping->i_shared_lock);
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             reply	other threads:[~2000-07-12  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-12  1:53 Andrew Morton [this message]
2000-07-14 10:18 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-14 12:57   ` Andrew Morton

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