On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OIC, you need a virtual address to evict the icache, so you can't > flush at flush_dcache time? Or does ia64 have an instruction to > flush the whole icache? (it would be worth testing, to see how much > performance suffers). I'm puzzled by that remark: the ia64 flush_icache_range always has a virtual address, it uses the kernel virtual address; it takes no interest in whether there's a user virtual address. Hugh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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