From: dave.martin@linaro.org (Dave Martin)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Discontiguous memory and cacheflush
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:43:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120816094318.GB2101@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120816091953.GL18957@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:19:53AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:27:26AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > Could we use the currently must-be-zero flags parameter to add new
> > functionality to this syscall, or are there legacy uses of that
> > parameter (or history of userspace not bothering to zero it?)
> >
> > For example, we could have something like
> >
> > do_cache_op(struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt, CF_IOVEC)
> >
> > to flush a discontiguous set of ranges described by an iovec (though we
> > can of course also describe the ranges in other ways)
>
> Why overload an existing syscall with multiple different argument types
> rather than having a new syscall with a sane API?
Sure, if it's OK to add a new system call, that would be a cleaner
approach.
Cheers
---Dave
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2012-08-10 5:52 ` Discontiguous memory and cacheflush Martin Rosenberg
2012-08-13 14:42 ` Jonathan Austin
2012-08-13 16:00 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-15 22:08 ` Martin Rosenberg
2012-08-16 8:27 ` Dave Martin
2012-08-16 9:19 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-08-16 9:43 ` Dave Martin [this message]
2012-08-17 15:53 ` Jonathan Austin
2012-08-17 21:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
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