From 2d4dc890b5c8fabd818a8586607e6843c4375e62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ilya Loginov Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:16:19 +0100 Subject: 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 Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Peter Horton Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/arm') 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); -- cgit v1.2.2