From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:16:52 +0000 Subject: Re: flush_dcache_page()/flush_icache_page() for larger page sizes Message-Id: <20041031021652.GL12934@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <20041029230347.GK12934@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20041029230347.GK12934@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org 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