linux/include
David S. Miller dadeafdfc8 [PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing
We were flushing the D-cache excessively for ptrace() processing
and this makes debugging threads so slow as to be totally unusable.

All process page accesses via ptrace() go via access_process_vm().
This routine, for each process page, uses get_user_pages().  That
in turn does a flush_dcache_page() on the child pages before we
copy in/out the ptrace request data.

Therefore, all we need to do after the data movement is:

1) Flush the D-cache pages if the kernel maps the page to a different
   color than userspace does.
2) If we wrote to the page, we need to flush the I-cache on older cpus.

Previously we just flushed the entire cache at the end of a ptrace()
request, and that was beyond stupid.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-17 18:03:11 -07:00
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acpi Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-alpha Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-arm [PATCH] ARM: fix debug macros 2005-04-17 16:28:31 +01:00
asm-arm26 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-cris Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-frv Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-generic [PATCH] add Big Endian variants of ioread/iowrite 2005-04-16 15:25:54 -07:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] h8300 header update 2005-04-16 15:25:21 -07:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] x86_64: add support for Intel dual-core detection and displaying 2005-04-16 15:25:15 -07:00
asm-ia64 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-m32r Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] ppc32: fix compilation error in include/asm-m68k/setup.h 2005-04-16 15:24:27 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-mips [PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing 2005-04-17 18:03:11 -07:00
asm-parisc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] u32 vs. pm_message_t in ppc and radeon 2005-04-16 15:25:34 -07:00
asm-ppc64 [PATCH] ppc64: no prefetch for NULL pointers 2005-04-16 15:24:38 -07:00
asm-s390 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-sh [PATCH] fix u32 vs. pm_message_t in rest of the tree 2005-04-16 15:25:37 -07:00
asm-sh64 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-sparc Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] sparc64: Reduce ptrace cache flushing 2005-04-17 18:03:11 -07:00
asm-um Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-v850 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Switch SMP bootup over to new CPU hotplug state machine 2005-04-16 15:25:19 -07:00
linux [PATCH] reparent_to_init cleanup 2005-04-16 15:26:01 -07:00
math-emu Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
media Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
mtd Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
net [PATCH] x86_64: Make IRDA devices are not really ISA devices not depend on CONFIG_ISA 2005-04-16 15:24:56 -07:00
pcmcia Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
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scsi Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
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video Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00