[PATCH] Optimize D-cache alias handling on fork Virtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away without cache flushing when forking. This patch adds a new cache flushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the moment I've implemented to do the same thing on all architectures except on MIPS where it's a no-op. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index d16c566..fc723e5 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ struct mempolicy *pol; down_write(&oldmm->mmap_sem); - flush_cache_mm(oldmm); + flush_cache_dup_mm(oldmm); /* * Not linked in yet - no deadlock potential: */