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Subject: Re: D-cache aliasing issue in __block_prepare_write
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From: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:16:46 +0400

> It's seems I've found D-cache aliasing issue in fs/buffer.c
 ...
> x86 does not have cache aliasing problems, the problem could
> show up only on marginal archs, ia64 is the most frequently used.
> 
> Following is the patch against 2.6.18 fix this issue:

This patch looks good to me.