From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 12:36:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH V2 1/2] ARM: remove unnecessary flush of anon pages in flush_dcache_page() In-Reply-To: <1349609352-6408-2-git-send-email-gmbnomis@gmail.com> References: <1349609352-6408-1-git-send-email-gmbnomis@gmail.com> <1349609352-6408-2-git-send-email-gmbnomis@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20121008113606.GB31458@arm.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:29:11PM +0100, Simon Baatz wrote: > On non-aliasing VIPT D-caches, there is no need to flush the kernel > mapping of anon pages in flush_dcache_page() directly. If the page is > mapped as executable later, the necessary D/I-cache flush will be done > in __sync_icache_dcache(). > > Signed-off-by: Simon Baatz > Cc: Catalin Marinas > Cc: Russell King Acked-by: Catalin Marinas