XFS mounting fails on MIPS

[Ajeet Yadav]

Ah! I got your point
thank you very much
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:10:33AM +0530, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
> > I think mips folks agree with the change. I really wish to have there
> > comment.
> >
> > I also wish to know do we really need fix in XFS for virtual indexed
> > architecture, I think its generic issue as many architecture now use VIVT
> or
> > VIPT caches. Do we want to say XFS is relatively unstable with virtual
> > indexed architecture ?
>
> The vmap flushing APIs I repeatedly pointed you at are the generic
> solution.  They've been implement for arm, parisc and sh already, it's
> just that no one has bothered to do it for mips yet.
>
> Without the proper flushing anything that uses vmap, which includes
> XFS is not "relatively unstable" but in fact not usable on systems
> with virtually indexed caches.
>
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