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| author | Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> | 2009-11-26 09:16:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2009-11-26 09:16:19 +0100 |
| commit | 2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 (patch) | |
| tree | 9976ed7b0eed0056f8289aeb6a2b0abf8c940454 /arch/arm/include | |
| parent | 3586e917f2c7df769d173c4ec99554cb40a911e5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62.tar.bz2 | |
block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages
Mtdblock driver doesn't call flush_dcache_page for pages in request. So,
this causes problems on architectures where the icache doesn't fill from
the dcache or with dcache aliases. The patch fixes this.
The ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE symbol was introduced to avoid
pointless empty cache-thrashing loops on architectures for which
flush_dcache_page() is a no-op. Every architecture was provided with this
flush pages on architectires where ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE is
equal 1 or do nothing otherwise.
See "fix mtd_blkdevs problem with caches on some architectures" discussion
on LKML for more information.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Horton <phorton@bitbox.co.uk>
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h index fd03fb63a332..247b7b0adc2a 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h @@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ extern void flush_ptrace_access(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, * about to change to user space. This is the same method as used on SPARC64. * See update_mmu_cache for the user space part. */ +#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1 extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *); extern void __flush_dcache_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page); |