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- Lines: 29
- Date:
Sun Mar 25 18:14:20 2001
- Orig file:
v2.4.2/linux/Documentation/cachetlb.txt
- Orig date:
Sat Feb 3 19:51:21 2001
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.2/linux/Documentation/cachetlb.txt linux/Documentation/cachetlb.txt
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@
mapped into some user address space, there is always at least one more
mapping, that of the kernel in it's linear mapping starting at
PAGE_OFFSET. So immediately, once the first user maps a given
-physical page into it's address space, by implication the D-cache
+physical page into its address space, by implication the D-cache
aliasing problem has the potential to exist since the kernel already
-maps this page at it's virtual address.
+maps this page at its virtual address.
First, I describe the old method to deal with this problem. I am
describing it for documentation purposes, but it is deprecated and the
@@ -252,11 +252,11 @@
Admittedly, the author did not think very much when designing this
interface. It does not give the architecture enough information about
-what exactly is going on, and there is not context with which to base
-any judgment about whether an alias is possible at all. The new
-interfaces to deal with D-cache aliasing are meant to address this by
-telling the architecture specific code exactly which is going on at
-the proper points in time.
+what exactly is going on, and there is no context to base a judgment
+on about whether an alias is possible at all. The new interfaces to
+deal with D-cache aliasing are meant to address this by telling the
+architecture specific code exactly which is going on at the proper points
+in time.
Here is the new interface:
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