On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:05:13AM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> 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.

Maybe your caches are no-allocate-on-write and glibc's memcpy()
loads from the destination addresses to force line allocation?
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