From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: flush_dcache_page()/flush_icache_page() for larger page sizes
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:16:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041031021652.GL12934@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041029230347.GK12934@holomorphy.com>
On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:50:31PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Actually, __flush_dcache_page() as written will handle any page size.
> It searches the entire 16K D-cache for the matching physical addresses.
> Everywhere I look there is code handling the various page sizes
> appropriately. If you're asking for how to implement these
> flushes you must see some case which isn't handled, what might
> that be?
No, I presumed aliases could occur when they could not. The "totally
unnecessary" part for >= 16K page sizes part handles the whole of my
concerns.
-- wli
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-31 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 23:03 flush_dcache_page()/flush_icache_page() for larger page sizes William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-31 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-31 2:16 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
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