Re: cacheflush system call-MIPS

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

peter fuerst wrote:
>> Why does it need that flush?
> 
> To prepare the update-area (in the Shadow-FB) for DMA to RE.
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And on systems where the root frame buffer is directly manipulated by 
the CPU, the video system is continually using DMA to refresh the 
display.  A cache flush can be required to eliminate transient visual 
glitches.

David Daney



> kind regards
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> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Ralf Baechle wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:56:03 +0000
>> From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>> To: peter fuerst <post@pfrst.de>
>> Cc: naresh kamboju <naresh.kernel@gmail.com>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
>> Subject: Re: cacheflush system call-MIPS
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:50:46AM +0100, peter fuerst wrote:
>>
>>> there is one more good reason to ... : the Impact Xserver needs to do
>>> a cacheflush(a,w,DCACHE) as part of the refresh-sequence.
>>> And hence requires a sys_cacheflush, let's say, more conforming to the
>>> man-page (or some disgusting new ioctl in the Impact kernel-driver to
>>> do an equivalent operation ;-)
>> Why does it need that flush?
>>
>>   Ralf
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