Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

[Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> I will try, but I had a look around the different architectures
> implementation of ptep_clear_flush_dirty() and saw that not all do the
> actual flush. So if we go down this road perhaps we should introduce
> another per arch function that does the potential flush. like
> flush_tlb_on_clear_dirty() or something like that.

never mind, we do need an unconditional flush for changing the
protection too.


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