Subject: Re: Kernel oops while dumping user core.

From: Scott Wood <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:23:31 -0600

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 16:10 -0600, Rune Torgersen wrote:
>> Scott Wood wrote:
>>> Changing update_mmu_cache() to always call flush_dcache_icache_page()
>>> fixes it, though a better performing fix would probably be to add an
>>> exception table entry for the dcbst.
>> I can confirm that this seems to fix it.
> 
> Might be better to avoid the flush when the page isn't readable ?

Sure, that'd work.  I was trying to avoid a tablewalk to determine that, 
not noticing the pte argument staring me in the face. :-P

-Scott