From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King Subject: Re: problems in commit 2d4dc890b5c8 (block: add helpers to run flush_dcache_page() against a bio and a request's pages) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:43:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20091210194348.GD20884@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1260402471.14369.60.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091210030638.db4cfd8a.isloginov@gmail.com> <1260404395.14369.68.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091210074020.a7c36c32.isloginov@gmail.com> <1260464851.2457.98.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091210174823.GA20884@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1260467956.2457.109.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091210180635.GB20884@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1260469255.2457.113.camel@mulgrave.site> <20091210224237.a1548bf9.isloginov@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:54134 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761435AbZLJToA (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:44:00 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091210224237.a1548bf9.isloginov@gmail.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Ilya Loginov Cc: James Bottomley , Jens Axboe , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:42:37PM +0300, Ilya Loginov wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:20:55 -0600 > James Bottomley wrote: > > > I'm not religiously opposed to the separation into a flush and a non > > flush case ... although I think if we have to do this, it's equivalent > > to just forcing users to add the flush_kernel_dcache_page() ... but if > > we can do it so that the users don't need to know the details, I think > > the API is much better. > > I wrote that flush_kernel_dcache_page() was exist only in parisc(and sh). and ARM. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: