| Kernel v2.4.2-ac25 /Documentation/cachetlb.txt |
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 2.4.2-ac25
 Documentation
 cachetlb.txt
diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from /usr/src/exclude linux.vanilla/Documentation/cachetlb.txt linux.ac/Documentation/cache+
tlb.txt
--- linux.vanilla/Documentation/cachetlb.txt Mon Jan 22 16:30:21 2001
+++ linux.ac/Documentation/cachetlb.txt Sun Mar 25 23:33:04 2001
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@
mapped into some user address space, there is always at least one more
mapping, that of the kernel in it's linear mapping starting at
PAGE_OFFSET. So immediately, once the first user maps a given
-physical page into it's address space, by implication the D-cache
+physical page into its address space, by implication the D-cache
aliasing problem has the potential to exist since the kernel already
-maps this page at it's virtual address.
+maps this page at its virtual address.
First, I describe the old method to deal with this problem. I am
describing it for documentation purposes, but it is deprecated and the
@@ -252,11 +252,11 @@
Admittedly, the author did not think very much when designing this
interface. It does not give the architecture enough information about
-what exactly is going on, and there is not context with which to base
-any judgment about whether an alias is possible at all. The new
-interfaces to deal with D-cache aliasing are meant to address this by
-telling the architecture specific code exactly which is going on at
-the proper points in time.
+what exactly is going on, and there is no context to base a judgment
+on about whether an alias is possible at all. The new interfaces to
+deal with D-cache aliasing are meant to address this by telling the
+architecture specific code exactly which is going on at the proper points
+in time.
Here is the new interface:
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