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| author | Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com> | 2009-11-26 11:16:19 +0300 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2009-11-26 11:16:19 +0300 |
| commit | 2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 (patch) | |
| tree | 9976ed7b0eed0056f8289aeb6a2b0abf8c940454 /arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h | |
| parent | 3586e917f2c7df769d173c4ec99554cb40a911e5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62.tar.xz | |
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/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h index c43321729b3b..b95384033e89 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/cacheflush_64.h @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ extern void flush_dcache_page_all(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *page); #endif extern void __flush_dcache_range(unsigned long start, unsigned long end); +#define ARCH_IMPLEMENTS_FLUSH_DCACHE_PAGE 1 extern void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page); #define flush_icache_page(vma, pg) do { } while(0) |