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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000 |
| commit | 06615f62b17d7de6e12d2f5ec6b88cf30af08413 (patch) | |
| tree | 8766f208847d4876a6db619aebbf54d53b76eb44 /Documentation/cachetlb.txt | |
| parent | fa9bdb574f4febb751848a685d9a9017e04e1d53 (diff) | |
Merge with Linux 2.4.0-test10.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cachetlb.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 3d003463d..952dbc652 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -284,6 +284,12 @@ Here is the new interface: user space shared/writable mappings of this page potentially exist, this routine is called. + NOTE: This routine need only be called for page cache pages + which can potentially ever be mapped into the address + space of a user process. So for example, VFS layer code + handling vfs symlinks in the page cache need not call + this interface at all. + The phrase "kernel writes to a page cache page" means, specifically, that the kernel executes store instructions that dirty data in that page at the page->virtual mapping |