On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 09:17:55AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:

> > > Ok, output on parisc is:
> > > 
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./a.out
> > > firstfirstfirst
> > > firstfirstfirst
> > > secondsecondsec
> > > 
> > > Which is correct.  It remains correct even if I drop the msync().
> > 
> > With Lennert's new program, I get mostly:
> > 
> > firstfirstfirst
> > firstfirstfirst
> > firstfirstfirst
> > 
> > but occasionally:
> > 
> > firstfirstfirst
> > firstfirstfirst
> > secondsecondsec
> > 
> > However, if I open code the memcpy() in the MAPREAD to copy one word
> > at a time, then I reliably get the "secondsecondsec" line.  But if I
> > convert the memcpy() in MAPWRITE in the same way, I'm back to mostly
> > getting the failure with the occasional success.  Utterly confused.
> > 
> > Unless someone's got a theory, I'm stumped.
> 
> I think you're not flushing correctly in munmap() ... but I'm not sure
> the linux API actually requires this.

Having to (conditionally) invalidate the kernel direct mapping for
every userland page we unmap would kind of suck..
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